14423 Pte Job Salter, 5th Bn, South Wales Borderers

Four days ago, on the 12th February, I wrote that 281 British Army officers and men had died on that day in 1917. Four days later and 286 men soldiers died on the 16th February 1917. Such losses would be inconceivable today and yet during the First World War years such figures, if not always the norm, were certainly not out of the ordinary.

14423 Private Job Salter of the 5th Battalion, South Wales Borderers, was one of those 286 men to lose his life. He volunteered for his King and Country in September 1914, and two and a half years later he was killed in action.

Job Salter, who had been overseas since 17th July 1915, was a native of Cardiff and enlisted at Newport in Monmouthshire. He is probably the same man whose birth was registered in the September quarter of 1878. He is buried in Courcelles-Au-Bois Communal Cemetery Extension.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War