Major Charles Conyers†
1st Bn., Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)

6pm – Trench in firing line lost. Battalion ordered to counter attack. Left about 11pm. ‘C’ Coy gained the captured trench but were obliged to retire owing to enfilade machine gun fire being brought to bear on them. Major Conyers (commanding Bn) mortally wounded.

(1st Bn., Leinster Regiment War Diary, 11 May 1915)

Charles Conyers was born on 19 November 1867 at his family estate Castletown Conyers in Limerick, Ireland. He had been commissioned since 1889, served in the Boer War, and was a major with the Royal Irish Fusiliers on the out break of the Great War. He transferred to the 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment to succeed Lieutenant-Colonel C.B. Prowse on 29 April 1915

Within two weeks Conyers was dead, mortally wounded by machine gun fire on 11 May 1915 during the failed counterattack. His son, Charles Graham Arthur John Conyers, served a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Artillery and earned a Military Cross in 1917.

Major H.W. Weldon assumed temporarily command of the 1st Leinsters until second-in-command Major J.D. Mather rejoined from sick leave.