Edward Pope

Baptism of Edward Pope of Church Lane - http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?nam...

1911 Census: Residents of a house 26.2 in Turner's Cottages (Pembroke West, Dublin) http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Pembroke_We...

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/4040497/POPE,%20E

• Rank:Private
• Service No:9251
• Date of Death:25/04/1918 Regiment/Service:Irish Guards 2nd Bn.
• Grave Reference: I. B. 20.
• Cemetery:EBBLINGHEM MILITARY CEMETERY
• Additional Information: Husband of Mrs. K. Pope, of 37, Shelbourne Rd., Ballsbridge, Dublin

Among those killed serving with the Irish Guards in the First World War was Lt. John Kipling, the 18-year old son of author Rudyard Kipling, who was listed as missing at Loos in September 1915.[nb 1] In tribute to his son's regiment, Kipling composed the poem "The Irish Guards" and after the war wrote a two-volume history of the regiment's service in the war.

"April had been an inexpensive month for both men and officers. The Commanding Officer, the Assistant Adjutant, and the Medical Officer had, as we know, been slightly gassed at Headquarters, and 2nd Lieutenants C. L. Browne and MacLachlan wounded only. Three men had been killed and forty-one wounded. But no less than twenty-six were sent down sick—proof that the strain had told."

- one of the three men mentioned above by Kipling as killed was presumably Edward Pope, killed in April.

From: http://www.telelib.com/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/IrishGu...

See photo - 3 Irish Guards side-by-side killed in April 1918: