Name
Eustace Charles Gabriel Lord
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Irish Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AYETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
B.2
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial
Pre War
Eustace Charles Gabriel was born in 1898 in Paddington, London to Charles Henry Lord, retired Major, and Margaret Mary Louisa (nee Scrope).
By the 1901 Census the family were living as boarders at the Beeches, Grove Hill Lane, Hemel Hempstead. On the 1911 Eustace was attending Downside School, Somerset.
Wartime Service
Eustace as a cadet was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the Irish Guards on 1 Aug 1917 and went to France to join 1st Battalion.
He was killed in action on 8 May 1918.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £5 and arrears of £63 17s 7d paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
