Richard Coore Blagrove (believed to be)

Location: St Michaels church, Dowdeswell, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 4LX

Details on Cross

IN MEMORY OF
LIEUT AND ADJT RC BLAGROVE
C BATT DUKE OF
CORNWALL’S LIGHT INFANTRY

KILLED IN ACTION

August 12th 1915

The cross has sustained some damage, possibly in the field which obscures some of the text

CWGC
BLAGROVE, R C

Rank: Lieutenant
Date of Death: 12/08/1915
Regiment/Service: Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry Adjt. 6th Bn.
Grave Reference: X. D. 20.
Cemetery: YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY

It appears he was subject to a reburial and concentration from Middle Prison Cemetery to Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.

Photograph courtey of John Vigar.