DEAR STEPHEN

CAPTAIN STEPHEN USSHER

DUKE OF CONNAUGHT'S OWN BALUCHIS

16TH DECEMBER 1914 AGE 32

BURIED: BEUVRY COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE


A gentle inscription that uncovers a family tragedy. Captain Stephen Ussher was one of the five sons of the Revd Richard and Mrs Ussher. His youngest brother, Arthur Basil, died when he was seven. After Stephen's death, his older brother, Beverly, was killed in Gallipoli in June 1915. Then after the war his oldest brother, Robert Arland, died following an operation and the next year, 1922, his younger brother, Richard, died from a war-related illness.