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Record No.: 662

Rank: Lieut

Surname: Elder

First Name: J. A. D.

Researched full name: John Andrew Dow Elder

Unit: 38th Can. Bn.

Description: Wounded G.S.W. in hip.
Ad 29th Oct, D. 30th Oct, B. 31st Oct 1918 in Emerchicourt Communal Cemetery, Grave 14, Plot 1, Row A.

Date of death: 30 Oct 1918

Chaplain: A.D. Reid, Chaplain

Comments: Next of Kin Father, 42 Terrace St, Chelsea Green, London, (Ont)?

Note from transcriber: Commonwealth War Grave Commission website indicates that graves of soldiers buried in October and November 1918 the Emerchicourt Churchyard were later moved to the Douai British Cemetery, Cuincy, 30 km from Emerchicourt. It shows that J. A. D. Elder is buried in Grave 20, Douai British Cemetery.