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Private Benjamin Robert McElveen

 

Number: 28100

Company: 74th (Dublin) Company (New), 8th Battalion

ENLISTMENT

Date: 18 February 1901

Place: Curragh

Age: 20 years 3 months

Trade of calling: Nil

Place of birth: In the Parish of Kildare, in or near the Town of Kildare, in the County of Kildare.

Family: Single. Father Joseph McElveen, Royal Irish Constabulary pensioner, mother Jane McElveen (nee Dalton), of Bernard Lodge, Curragh, County Kildare.

Previous military service: 2nd Volunteer Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment

Description: Height 6' 0". Complexion fresh, eyes grey, hair dark. Mole on back.

Religion: Wesleyan

ACTIVE SERVICE

Date to South Africa: 22 March 1901

Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 1901 clasps.

DEATH

Date: 24 August 1901

Place: Rooikopjes

Cause: Killed in action

Buried/ commemorated: Griquatown, later re-interred in West End Cemetery, Kimberley/ West End Cemetery Memorial, and St Andrew's Church Memorial, Dublin.

This page last updated 1 September 2024.