Grave location: Plot 5, Row, Grave 13.

A standard Commonwealth Grave Commission (CWGC) inscribed gravestone.

Lance Corporal Frederick St. Ledger Drea was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1886 to Father, James Drea and mother, Mary St Ledger Drea, Irish immigrants. He was killed while serving in Italy with the 10^th Battalion, of the Northumberland Fusiliers.  He fell on October 28^th, 1918 during the final battle of the First World War in Italy, the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. He also served in the Royal Fusiliers and Labor Corps during the war.  He left behind his wife, Esther Adeline Drea, née Fawcett, married in 1915.

About Drea from the CWGC file:

Service Number 55506

10th Bn. 

Northumberland Fusiliers

Husband of Esther Adeline Drea, of 9, St. James's Gardens, Haverstock Hill, London. Born Philadelphia, U.S.A.

A bit about the cemetery: 

The village of Tezze was captured by the Austrians in the advance in the autumn of 1917 and remained in their hands until the Allied forces crossed the River Piave at the end of October 1918.

The Allied attack east of the Piave began early in the morning of 27 October. Despite stiff resistance and difficulties with bringing forward supporting troops across the river, the Austrians were forced back over the next few days until the Armistice came into effect on 4 November.

(INSIGNIA OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS)

55506 LANCE CPL

F. ST.L. DREA

NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS

28^TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 32

(SYMBOL OF THE CROSS)

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN