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Second Lieutenant Samuel McCullagh Linden

 

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2nd Lieutenant Samuel McCullagh Linden, 90th HAC, Royal Garrison Artillery, formerly a Private in the North Irish Horse, Service No. 2123. Linden was the son of Robert and Elizabeth Linden of Warrenpoint, and husband of Florence Elizabeth Linden of 41 Clarendon Street, Londonderry. He enlisted with the North Irish Horse in February or March 1916, and was commissioned to the Royal Garrison Artillery on 19 January 1917. He embarked for France on 29 April 1917, where he was Mentioned in Despatches. Killed in action on 31 July 1917, aged 25. No known grave. Commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlanderen, Belgium, Panel 9, and in Clonallan Church of Ireland Churchyard, County Down, Northern Ireland. The latter, shown below, reads:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

ELIZABETH

WIFE OF ROBERT LINDEN

DIED 5TH JANUARY 1934

ALSO OF THEIR SON

SAMUEL LINDEN B. A.

MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES

KILLED IN ACTION 31ST JULY 1917

AT YPRES

 

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Images kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.