217549 Capt. King Elmes British Army att. 2/16th London Regiment Royal Army Medical Corps from:Robinstown, Co Wexford, Ireland (d.30th Sep 1918) As children, we heard that my grandmother's brother, King Elmes, a RAMC doctor, had been with his regiment in 'Arabia' with Lawrence. We were told that when 'all went quiet' in 'Arabia' he moved to the Western Front, and was killed on 30th September 1918, hit by a shell. He is buried in Kandahar Farm. King would have been one of a generation of young Irish doctors who would have been prevented from getting the usual entry level job at home on qualification, by a bar on employing doctors of an age to serve in the army in the Poor Law medical services. There was a history of military service as medical doctors in the family, a south Wexford farming family. His uncle Robert had served with the RAMC in the Crimea, and two other doctor brothers, Sam and Euseby, served in the Navy, Euseby being on a merchant ship in the Pacific when the ship was annexed. I'd love to know more about what King's regiment was up to in Egypt, Salonika and Palestine, and also on the western front - I gather they were advancing when King was hit.
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