2nd Lt Rudolph V Surr, 5th Bn, Worcs Regt

2nd Lt Rudolph Vincent Surr of the 5th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment, (attached to the 24th Trench Mortar Battery) died on the 31st October 1916. He was killed in action.

Rudolph was 25 years old and an American citizen. He was the son of Vincent Surr of 1696 Cedar Avenue, Berkeley, California, USA and had probably been in England at least since 1911 when he appears on the census that year as a 19-year-old commerce student visiting the home of Elizabeth Ward Roberts and her family at 11 Waldeck Avenue in Bedford.

Rudolph's medal index card notes that he originally arrived overseas in France (on the 31st October 1915) as a private (number 2129) with the 18th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. His sister, Miss E Surr, is recorded on his medal index card, two addresses being given for her, the first in Kiddernminster and the second in Ayr, Scotland.


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

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC, WO 363)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission