Captain RICHARD FORD REW ELKINGTON
Service Number: 97011
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Rifle Brigade
10th (2nd Bn. The Tower Hamlets Rifles) Bn.
Date of Death
Died 19 January 1943
Age 24 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. John Ford Elkington, D.S.O., and Mary Elkington, of Newbury, Berkshire. B.A. (Oxon.).
- Personal Inscription DIED OF WOUNDS "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI"
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