Private Edward Erskine Wilmot-Chetwode
Number: 9705
Company: 45th (Dublin) Company, 13th Battalion
ENLISTMENT
Date: 15 January 1900
Place: Newbridge
Age: 21 years
Trade of calling: Nil
Place of birth: In the Parish of Woodbrook, near the Town of Portarlington, in the County of Queens
Family: Single. Father Erskine Wilmot-Chetwode.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 10 3/4". Complexion fair, eyes blue, hair fair.
Religion: Other Protestant
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: 8 July 1900
Place: Lindley
Cause: Wounds sustalined 29 May
Commemorated: Wilmot-Chetwode is buried in the Lindley Cemetery (see images below). He is commemorated on the Lindley Cemetery Memorial, the Yeomanry Kop Memorial, the St Patrick's Cathedral Memorial in Dublin, and on a plaque in St John the Evangelist's Church, Coolbanagher, County Laois (see image below).
Irish Times, 17 July 1900
Oxford Journal, 21 July 1900
Second image sourced from the Traces of War site.
This page last updated 17 July 2024.