Major Charles Lendrum

Regiment: Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Date published: 24/11/1916
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 13/11/1916
Age at death: 28
Cemetery: St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine-maritime, France
Plot: Officers, B. 2. 8.
Information: Major Charles Lendrum, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died of wounds in a Rouen hospital. He was second in command of his battalion. A son of the late Captain James Lendrum, Seaforth Highlanders, and of Mrs. Lendrum, Bundoran, he was a cousin of Colonel M‘Clintock, D.L., officer commanding the Inniskilling Fusiliers in Londonderry. On the outbreak of war he was engaged in the tea planting business in Ceylon, and patriotically came home to volunteer. He was well known in Londonderry, where the news of his death has been received with much regret by his brother officers.