Elias Round, Age 23

Gunner, 77353, "D" Battery, 86th Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery.

Royal Horse Artillery Cap Badge.

The final bad news arrived in late 1917 when word reached Dawley that Elias had been killed in action in the Ypres Salient. Elias had married and whilst he served in France his wife Kate had moved to Ipswich. At the time of his death, he was serving as a gunner with ‘D’ battery 86th Brigade Royal Horse artillery and in the same month he was killed he had written to the Dawley News “we have lost a lot of men I used to see at the chapel on Sunday nights — I hope and trust God will spare the rest of us to get through this terrible war”. Elias’s letter was published in the Dawley news on Nov13th 1917 a day before he was killed in action on the 14th Nov.

His body is interred in the Oxford Road Cemetery in the outskirts of Ypres in grave V.E.19.

Extra info:
Elias was born on the 18th January 1894, at Wellington and Christened on the 13th February 1894, at Dawley Magna, at the age of 7 he was living in a cottage on Lawley Common, His mother Sarah Jane (maiden name Maiden) died in 1905 and his father married Sarah Ann in 1908, Elias married Kate Florence Prentice at Woolwich, London in 1915, they had a son Harold Arthur William Round on the 5th Dec 1915.

Gunner, Elias Round

Photo courtesy of The War Graves Photographic Project

WWI Medal Rolls Index Card

Commonwealth War Graves
Buried Oxford Road Cemetery

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Victory Medal	British War Medal	1914-15 Star Medal