Five weeks after the Armistice had been declared, men continued to die on active service. 100227 Driver Edward Switzer of C Battery, 76th Bde, Royal Field Artillery, died of wounds on the 18th December 1918. Edward, born in Dublin, appears in Ireland's Roll of Honour (see above). He enlisted at Dundalk and had originally arrived overseas on the 26th December 1915, thus just qualifying for the 1914-15 Star. He died in England and is buried in Brookwood Military Cemetery in Surrey.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Ireland, Casualties of World War 1, 1914-1918
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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