Lance Corporal Herbert Snowden Findlater

Herbert Snowden Findlater

• Educated at Strangeways School and Trinity College Dublin.
• Took articles with William Findlater & Co, Solicitors in Dame Street, the firm founded by Sir William Findlater.

He then put up his own plate and shared chambers with the Taxing Master, later joining the firm of Hoey and Denning, Trinity Street.

• keen footballer, being a member of the Monkstown Football Club
• he and his brother Charles enrolled in the ‘Pals’, D Company of the 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers. They were sent to Gallipoli
• he went missing, presumed dead, on Chocolate Hill, Suvla Bay on 16th August 1915.

When Herbert Snowden was posted missing, Evelyn returned to Cheshire, with her two sons and her mother who had originally come from that area. Evelyn received an allowance from her mother-in-law and benefited under her will, but the sums involved were not great.

Reference - http://www.findlater.org.uk/Snowden.htm

LANCE CORPORALHERBERT S. FINDLATER

• Service Number: 14198
• Regiment & Unit/Ship
• Royal Dublin Fusiliers 7th Bn.
• Date of Death Died 16 August 1915

Buried or commemorated at
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 192 to 197.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)

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