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Private Charles Richard Woodside

 

 

Woodside

 

Charles Richard Woodside of 97 Ardenlee Avenue, Belfast, enlisted in the North Irish Horse at Antrim in November 1915 (Service No 1795). Sent to France as a reinforcement in 1916, 1917 or 1918, he was posted to the 1st Regiment North Irish Horse. He died from pneumonia on 8 November 1918 and was buried at Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt, Somme, France, grave XIII.B.4. The gravestone inscription reads:

71563 PRIVATE

C. R. WOODSIDE

NORTH IRISH HORSE

8TH NOVEMBER 1918

 

Image of gravestone kindly provided by Richard Evans. See his website Nelson, Glamorgan and the Great War http://www.nelson-ww1-memorial.org.uk. Newspaper image from the Belfast Evening Telegraph kindly provided by Nigel Henderson (see Fitzroy Presbyterian Church: Wartime Service and Sacrifice).