Friday 30 August 1918 We Lost 1,503
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Major Roland Elphinstone Gordon MC (Royal Field Artillery) dies of wounds at home at age 25. He is a Scottish Rugby International earning 3 caps.
Today’s losses include:
- A Scottish Rugby International
- Multiple families that will lose two and three sons in the Great War
- The son of a Member of Parliament
- The son of a Justice of the Peace
- A man whose son will be killed in the Second World War
Today’s highlighted casualties include:
- Captain Charles Frederick Sandoe (Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry) is killed at age 20. His brother was killed in May 1917.
- Captain Tom Cecil Haydn Berry (Welsh Regiment) is killed at age 26. He is a scholar and exhibitioner at Exeter College, Oxford.
- Lieutenant Edward Slattery DCM MM (Central Ontario Regiment) is killed at age 23. His brother was killed in August 1917.
- Lieutenant Roger Morrow Porter (East Ontario Regiment) is killed at age 20. He is the son of E Goss Porter KC MP.
- Lieutenant George Rowland Collin (Central Ontario Regiment) is killed at age 36. His son will be killed in the Second World War in May 1942
- Second Lieutenant Harris Hartas Anson (Duke of Wellington’s Regiment) is killed in action at age 28. He is the son of Harris Anson JP.
- Sergeant Hugh James Frederick Barber (Australian Infantry) is killed at age 37. His brother was killed in November 1916.
- Lance Corporal Charles Pearson (Dragoon Guards) is killed at age 46. He is the last of three brothers who are killed in the Great War.
- Air Mechanic 1st Class Reginald William Cowin (Airship Construction Station, Kingsworth Royal Air Force) is accidentally killed flying at age 21. His brother was killed in July 1916.
- Private Ernest W Martin (Suffolk Regiment) is killed in action at age 19. His brother was killed in June 1915.
- Private Albert Martin (Northumberland Fusiliers) dies as a prisoner of war at age 19. His brother died of wounds in October 1917.
- Private Frederick Robert George Rockall (Royal Fusiliers) is killed in action at age 35. His brother was killed in September 1916.
- Private Percival Richard Bradford (Middlesex Regiment) dies of wounds as a prisoner of war at age 19. His brother died of wounds in 1914.