Location
In Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Description Standard CWGC Headstone. Grave location : I. A. 20. |
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Headstone
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Inscription
SECOND LIEUTENANT F.J. ELTON ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY 11TH SEPTEMBER 1915 AGE 24 † GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS Further Information
Frederick John Elton
Isle of Wight County Press
18 September 1915 The sad news was received with profound regret at the County Secondary School, Newport,
this week that 2nd-Lieut. F J Elton, R.F.A., who previous to the war was a very popular
form master at the school, had died of wounds received in action in Flanders on Saturday.
He formerly served in the Hants Yeomanry. He was acting as forward observing officer when a
bomb from a German aeroplane pitched into the dugout killing two other officers immediately
and wounding him so badly that he died a few hours later. He was 24 years of age and had been
at the County Secondary School since 1911, coming from Hartley University College, Southampton,
in which town his parents reside. His kindness of heart and unfailing cheerfulness endeared him
to both scholars and teachers alike.
He is the third member of Newport Rowing Club to lose his life in the war. Further information Hartley University College Back to Cemetery index page |
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