Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the youngest son of George Loader, Coal Merchant and his wife Juliette, who was the daughter of the late John Jephson of Derby. Cecil was educated at the Intermediate School in Loughborough, Leicestershire, and on leaving was engaged in business at Adderley’s, Leicester. He enlisted in February 1915 and served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and subsequently proceeded to Mesopotamia and was killed in action at Sheria, Palestine on the 7th November 1917 whilst attending wounded under heavy shell fire. Captain Thornton, R.A.M.C., wrote, “Private Loader was with me in Macedonia both on water duty and as a voluntary helper in my medical tent. We had a very hard winter out there, and often so isolated that we could not really send our sick into hospital. In January, February and March therefore we ran a sick tent, and it was there that I learnt the real value of your son, for he was a born nurse, and I have heard from man after man, ‘as gentle as a woman’. I don’t think I ever met a man with such a gentle touch-a touch that never hurts. I am writing officially to the 3rd London Field Ambulance to express what I feel to the Officer Commanding, and I have already mentioned this by word of mouth. Both your son and Corporal Lewis belonged to the same ambulance, and only attached to our Brigade. I wish that I could say more in the way of comfort-that is impossible at present, but it is all well when a young soldier leads the life I know your son led-an example to us all for straight living, and making the best of every opportunity the Chaplain could give us of Holy Communion services, and at the last forgetting self for others.” Cecil was unmarried.