Grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin, son of Sir Horace and Lady 'Ida' Darwin. Killed in Action WW I. Second Lieutenant,Yorkshire Regiment.
Darwin family letters say:-"The Royal Irish Fusiliers recovered his body along with that of Captain Nancarrow and the two were buried together with a little cross over it by a farmhouse near St Julien." However this grave must have been destroyed in the years of subsequent fighting and he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Commanding Officer, Colonel Bell wrote of him:- "Loyalty, courage and devotion to duty, he had them all.....He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man's death."
The Times (30-4-15) said of him "Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the north there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all that met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of the subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was indeed impossible to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound and practical judgement, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked for experience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain what to do what he believed to be right."
His name is recorded on the Saltburn-by-Sea WWI memorial, see image from Middlesbrough Gazette article: June 2014.
G2.74 The Parish War Memorial, Cambridge near the south western gate, consisting of a round stone seat, with a crucifix in the middle of a square plinth, with three copper plates for the names.+ On the west side,carved into the stone of the plinth, "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND IN YOUR LIVES" incl.
Erasmus Darwin [he had no known grave in Belgium]
Bertram Hopkinson*
Cecil Hopkinson*
Alfred Wehrle*
* buried in the Ascension Burial Ground.
+ 69
Darwin family letters say:-"The Royal Irish Fusiliers recovered his body along with that of Captain Nancarrow and the two were buried together with a little cross over it by a farmhouse near St Julien." However this grave must have been destroyed in the years of subsequent fighting and he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Commanding Officer, Colonel Bell wrote of him:- "Loyalty, courage and devotion to duty, he had them all.....He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man's death."
The Times (30-4-15) said of him "Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the north there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all that met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of the subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was indeed impossible to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound and practical judgement, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked for experience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain what to do what he believed to be right."
His name is recorded on the Saltburn-by-Sea WWI memorial, see image from Middlesbrough Gazette article: June 2014.
G2.74 The Parish War Memorial, Cambridge near the south western gate, consisting of a round stone seat, with a crucifix in the middle of a square plinth, with three copper plates for the names.+ On the west side,carved into the stone of the plinth, "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND IN YOUR LIVES" incl.
Erasmus Darwin [he had no known grave in Belgium]
Bertram Hopkinson*
Cecil Hopkinson*
Alfred Wehrle*
* buried in the Ascension Burial Ground.
+ 69
Grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin, son of Sir Horace and Lady 'Ida' Darwin. Killed in Action WW I. Second Lieutenant,Yorkshire Regiment.
Darwin family letters say:-"The Royal Irish Fusiliers recovered his body along with that of Captain Nancarrow and the two were buried together with a little cross over it by a farmhouse near St Julien." However this grave must have been destroyed in the years of subsequent fighting and he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Commanding Officer, Colonel Bell wrote of him:- "Loyalty, courage and devotion to duty, he had them all.....He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man's death."
The Times (30-4-15) said of him "Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the north there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all that met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of the subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was indeed impossible to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound and practical judgement, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked for experience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain what to do what he believed to be right."
His name is recorded on the Saltburn-by-Sea WWI memorial, see image from Middlesbrough Gazette article: June 2014.
G2.74 The Parish War Memorial, Cambridge near the south western gate, consisting of a round stone seat, with a crucifix in the middle of a square plinth, with three copper plates for the names.+ On the west side,carved into the stone of the plinth, "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND IN YOUR LIVES" incl.
Erasmus Darwin [he had no known grave in Belgium]
Bertram Hopkinson*
Cecil Hopkinson*
Alfred Wehrle*
* buried in the Ascension Burial Ground.
+ 69
Darwin family letters say:-"The Royal Irish Fusiliers recovered his body along with that of Captain Nancarrow and the two were buried together with a little cross over it by a farmhouse near St Julien." However this grave must have been destroyed in the years of subsequent fighting and he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Commanding Officer, Colonel Bell wrote of him:- "Loyalty, courage and devotion to duty, he had them all.....He died in an attack which gained many compliments to the Battn. He was right in front. It was a man's death."
The Times (30-4-15) said of him "Erasmus Darwin would, if he had lived, have added fresh distinction to the name of his family in a walk of life in which it has never before figured. Between Cambridge and a great iron works in the north there is something of a gulf fixed and one who knew Darwin only in his Cambridge home cannot say anything more than that all that met him in business conceived a very high opinion of his grasp of the subject, his acuteness and administrative ability. It was indeed impossible to know him without realising that he combined with intellectual ability a calm, sound and practical judgement, and a general capacity for doing things well and thoroughly. He had, too, what must have been invaluable to him in his work, a most genuine sympathy with and affection for working men, and this quality, which, amongst so many other things, had made him love his work at Middlesbrough, gave him intense pleasure when soldiering came to him as a wholly new and unlooked for experience. He delighted in the men, and especially in long expeditions across the moors with his scouts. There is one more quality as to which all his friends would agree, namely a conscientiousness that was eminently sane and wide minded and completely unswerving. No one in the world was more certain what to do what he believed to be right."
His name is recorded on the Saltburn-by-Sea WWI memorial, see image from Middlesbrough Gazette article: June 2014.
G2.74 The Parish War Memorial, Cambridge near the south western gate, consisting of a round stone seat, with a crucifix in the middle of a square plinth, with three copper plates for the names.+ On the west side,carved into the stone of the plinth, "IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD / JESUS CHRIST THIS CROSS / IS SET UP AS A MEMORIAL / TO THE MEN OF THIS PARISH / WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY / IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 -1919 / REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR / PRAYERS AND IN YOUR LIVES" incl.
Erasmus Darwin [he had no known grave in Belgium]
Bertram Hopkinson*
Cecil Hopkinson*
Alfred Wehrle*
* buried in the Ascension Burial Ground.
+ 69
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