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Mr Elder, Gavieside, has received a letter from a chaplain in France, conveying the sad news that his son, Corporal George Elder, of the Royal Scots, was killed in action on the 23rd April. George Elder enlisted in December, 1914, before he had reached the military age, and was sent to France in June 1915. In civil life he worked as a miner.
Midlothian Advertiser, 1st June 1917
In Memory of
GEORGE ELDER
Corporal
16776
13th Bn., Royal Scots
who died on
Monday, 23rd April 1917.
Commemorative Information
Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France
Grave Reference/Panel Number: Bay 1 and 2
Location: The Arras Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras. The cemetery is near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station. The Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 casualties of the British, New Zealand and South African Forces who died between Spring 1916 and 7th August 1918, with the exception of casualties of the Battle of Cambrai in 1917, and who have no known grave. The design, by Sir Edward Lutyens, consists of a cloister, 25 feet high and 380 feet long, built up on Doric columns and faces west. In the broader part of the site the colonnade returns to form a recessed and open court, terminated by an apse. The names of the casualties are carved on stone panels fixed to the cloister walls.
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