CAPTAIN DUDLEY EYRE PERSSE
ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
2ND JANUARY 1915 AGE 22
BURIED: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY NORD, FRANCE
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4 v 7 & 8
Captain Persse was a regular soldier who had been with the Expediitonary Force since the beginning of the war. He died of wounds at No. 2 Casualty Clearing Station in Bailleul. After his death a small volume of poetry, 'Seven Poems by Dudley Eyre Persse 4th Royal Dublin Fusiliers Died of Wounds Received in Action 1 February 1915', was printed for private circulation.