PRIVATE RICHMOND NELSON
24TH APRIL 1917 AGE 24
BURIED: ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, FRANCE
There's an element of Uncle Tom Cobley and all about this inscription, everyone seems to have got in on the act. But do you notice anything? There's no mother. Richmond Nelson's mother, Rebecca, died in 1895 at the age of 27. And there are no brothers or sisters either.
Richmond Nelson served on Gallipoli from 30 May 1915 to 4 January 1916, very nearly the final day of the evacuation. After this, he was invalided home to England due to illness, but had recovered enough to be sent to France in September 1916. Nelson was wounded, possibly at Grandcourt, on 5 February 1917. His wounds were sufficiently serious for him to be sent to a base hospital in Etaples, where he died 20 days later.