8997 Pte Reuben F Rowdon, 1st Bn, Coldstream Gds

8997 Private Reuben F Rowdon of the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, died of wounds on the 8th October 1914. He was 23 years old, the son of Richard and Rosina Rowdon, of 7 Bendon Terrace, Earlsfield, London. His number indicates that he had joined the Coldstream Guards in Febraury 1911.

Reuben is buried in Braine Communal Cemetery in France.

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

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission