Richard Gardiner Brewster. Second Lieutenant 7th (South Irish Horse) Battalion The Royal Irish Regiment. Killed in action on the 25th of March 1918 aged 25. He was the son of Susan M. Brewster, of "Audenville," Iona Rd., Glasnevin, Dublin, and the late William Theodore Brewster. He is remembered on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France.
R. G. Brewster (1905-07), 2nd Lieut., Special Cavalry Reserve, serving with the Lancers, was reported in our last number as missing, but it has since been announced that he was killed on March 21st last.
He was the son of Mr. W. T. Brewster, of Audenville, Iona Road, Glasnevin, and when leaving school took first place in the United Kingdom in the Second Division Civil Service Examination. When the war broke out he was employed in the Department of Agriculture; he and his brother Theo both joined up at once in the South Irish Horse, and he served with the First Expeditionary Force from August 17th, 1914, took part in the retreat from Mans, in the battles of the Marne and the Aisne and the first battle of Ypres.
He obtained his Commission in November, 1916, and returned to France in April, 1917. Until his death in March at Roussoy, near St. Quentin, he had come right through the war scatheless. Everyone who knew him will remember his bright, cheerful disposition, and straightforward honourable character. His brother is now a 2nd Lieut. in the Lancers.
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