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Private Charles Elder

 

 

Elder

 

Private Charles Elder, 'A' Squadron, V Corps Cyclist (North Irish Horse) Regiment, Service No. 71585 (Corps of Hussars). Enlisted Antrim. Residence 25 New North Queen Street, Belfast. Son of James Elder of Mullartown, Annalong, County Down. Killed in action on 7 November 1918, aged 23. Buried at Dourlers Communal Cemetery Extension, Nord, France, grave I.D.17. The gravestone inscription reads:

1/71585 PRIVATE

C. ELDER

NORTH IRISH HORSE

7TH NOVEMBER 1918 AGE 23

BLESSED ARE THE DEAD

WHICH DIE IN THE LORD

 

Gravestone image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org. Image of Private Elder from the Belfast Evening Telegraph, 2 January 1919, kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).