CAPTAIN CHARLES CADWALADR TREVOR-ROPER
HAMPSHIRE REGIMENT
3RD AUGUST 1917 AGE 33
BURIED: DUHALLOW A.D.S. CEMETERY, BELGIUM
The words for this inscription come from Virgil's Eclogue X, line 69, Love conquers all things. They were chosen by Charles Trevor-Roper's wife.
Charles Trevor-Roper was an actor. After taking his degree at Clare College, Cambridge he went on to study at the Academy of Dramatic Art. He toured Australia with Harry Irving's company during 1911, and at the outbreak of war was playing Captain Felix in 'The Grande Seigneur' at the Savoy Theatre.
On the death of his uncle in 1901, Charles had inherited the family estate of Plas Teg in Flintshire together with a large fortune. He was one of twelve children, ten of whom were older than him, but they were all girls. The twelfth child was another boy. Both boys, Charles and Geoffrey, were killed in the war.
Charles' only son, Richard, who had been the rear gunner in Guy Gibson's Lancaster bomber on the Dambuster Raid, 16/17 May 1943, was killed in action in another raid over Germany on 31 March 1944.