Captain Sir John Elliott Cecil Power
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: Joined 46th (Belfast) Company February 1900
Age: 29 years
Trade of calling: Gentleman. Of the Powers 'whiskey baron' family, 4th Baronet Kilfane.
Place of birth: In the Parish of Kilcullen, near the Town of Naas, in the County of Kildare
Family: Father Sir Richard Crampton Power, 3rd Baronet Kilfane, mother Florence Anna Maria Power (nee Elliott)
Previous military service: Captain, 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment
Religion: Church of Ireland
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 13 March 1900
Campaigns: South Africa 1899-1901
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal, Cape Colony and Orange Free State clasps.
DEATH
Date: 1 June 1900
Place: Lindley
Cause: Wounds sustained on 28 May
Commemorated: Power is buried in the Lindley Cemetery (see images below). He is commemorated on the Lindley Cemetery Memorial and on the Yeomanry Kop Memorial, Lindley.
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph, 9 June 1900
Power's younger brother, Elliott Derrick Le Poer Power, captain in the 1st Battallion, Rifle Brigade, died at Standerton, Mpumalanga, South Africa, on 20 January 1902.
Captain Elliott Power
This page last updated 15 July 2024.