Raymond Elsden

Found shot in his bunk R.E Camp Newark, pronounced dead from blood loss and shock from a self inflicted rifle gunshot wound to the head at Bowbridge Road Emergency Hospital. At his inquest he was described as a good soldier with a cheerful disposition, but he had found out due to a mistake by the Pay NCO he had been paid the full adult soldiers rate for 6 weeks and owed the Army £6 11s.

Raymond's father, Arthur Elsden joined the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry at 16 in 1915 but was discharged after his father informed them.

1917 he served with the Royal Service Corp on reaching recruitment age, during which time he was sentenced to a year in detention at Detention Barracks Chelmsford by a District Court Martial. For an offence carried out while drunk 5/4/1918. Released from detention 12/8/1918 with conduct reported as 'indifferent' he was posted to France, on return he received two more reprimands. Driving a lorry at excessive speed and taking an ambulance without permission. Discharged from military service 1919, died in 1937 from Meningitis after a Tonsillectomy at Manor Hospital, Walsall. Florence died in 1944.