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Lieut Gerald Lovell Backhouse

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Lieut Gerald Lovell Backhouse

Birth
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
Death
2 Aug 1916 (aged 18)
St Ives, Huntingdonshire District, Cambridgeshire, England
Burial
Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland Add to Map
Plot
Protestant Section C, Reserve 10
Memorial ID
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Second Lieutenant Gerald Lovell Backhouse.
The Norfolk Regiment
transferred to
The Royal Flying Corps.

The birth of Gerald Lovell Backhouse son of Henry Church Backhouse and Georgina Lovell Backhouse, formerly Weston, on 30 August 1897, in Bachelor’s Walk, Dundalk, was registered in Dundalk, by his father on 20 September 1897, who gave his occupation as a Merchant.

The death of Gerald L. Backhouse, aged 19, was registered in St. Ives district, Cambridgeshire, in the quarter ended September 1916.

Second Son of Henry Church Backhouse and Georgina Lovell Weston Backhouse formerly of Rath, Haggardstown, Co. Louth, later of Ailesbury Road, Dublin.
Henry Backhouse was a Wine Merchant.

Second-Lieut. Gerald Lovell Backhouse, Norfolk Regiment, attached Royal Flying Corps, who was killed on August 2nd in an aviation accident at Huntingdon, while on active service, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Backhouse, 14 Ailesbury Road, Dublin, and Dundalk. He was educated at Shrewsbury, where he was a member of the O.T.C. He passed into Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment. He subsequently joined the R.F.C., and in a short time showed such exceptional ability that he was selected for scout flying.

His name is included on
Donnybrook Parish War Memorial
Second Lieutenant Gerald Lovell Backhouse.
The Norfolk Regiment
transferred to
The Royal Flying Corps.

The birth of Gerald Lovell Backhouse son of Henry Church Backhouse and Georgina Lovell Backhouse, formerly Weston, on 30 August 1897, in Bachelor’s Walk, Dundalk, was registered in Dundalk, by his father on 20 September 1897, who gave his occupation as a Merchant.

The death of Gerald L. Backhouse, aged 19, was registered in St. Ives district, Cambridgeshire, in the quarter ended September 1916.

Second Son of Henry Church Backhouse and Georgina Lovell Weston Backhouse formerly of Rath, Haggardstown, Co. Louth, later of Ailesbury Road, Dublin.
Henry Backhouse was a Wine Merchant.

Second-Lieut. Gerald Lovell Backhouse, Norfolk Regiment, attached Royal Flying Corps, who was killed on August 2nd in an aviation accident at Huntingdon, while on active service, was the second son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Backhouse, 14 Ailesbury Road, Dublin, and Dundalk. He was educated at Shrewsbury, where he was a member of the O.T.C. He passed into Sandhurst, and was gazetted to the Norfolk Regiment. He subsequently joined the R.F.C., and in a short time showed such exceptional ability that he was selected for scout flying.

His name is included on
Donnybrook Parish War Memorial

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