Private Rodolfe Luigi ('Rudolph') Casiraghi was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War
He was born in 1891, in Hastings, the son of Swiss-born Gilberto and Eleanor Lucretia Casiraghi (née Reiger), of Hastings. At the time of the 1911 Census, the younger Casiraghi was working as a waiter at the National Liberal Club.
Casiraghi died on 5 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, while serving with the 3/10th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment). His brother, Gilbert, died on 25 April 1918, while a private with the 1/9th London Regiment.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Casiraghi, Rudolph, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 October 2012.