2nd Lt Berkshire Regiment Laughton Hassard ALISON

viz. https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/47382942/person/69...: Capt. Charles German ALISON 1845-1932. WINN Family Tree by Peggy DALEY.

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E-mail from Michael Kuczynski <miguel.kuczynski@gmail.com> 23 Augustus 2018 11:24

As I suspected, the photograph which I have of L.H. ALISON is from the Imperial War Museum. I attach it in case you do not already have it, together with the brief account which will be in our records for the War of 1914-18.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Kuczynski

L.H. Alison IWM photograph.docx

Laughton Hassard ALISON (Imperial War Museum) ALISON, Laughton Hassard Born Glastonbury, 19 April 1890  Father military then chief constable of Somerset  Educated Harrow School  PCC 1909 Scholar, mathematics then physics, golf blue  Worked as a clerk in a munitions factory  Regiment Berkshire, 2nd Lieut.  Died either 15 or 16 May 1915, reported missing south of Richebourg l’Avoué after the battle of Festhubert, “It was a night attack and no one saw him fall, but he never returned, and, though the ground covered by his Regiment was carefully searched, his body was never found; he is thought to have been buried under the earth thrown up by the heavy German shells, with which the ground was pitted”  Commemorated at Le Touret Memorial, Richebourg l’Avoué and at Christ Church, Charnock Richard, near Chorley [PH]

(Added by Y. DROST, 28 AUG 2018)

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Died during the Battle of Festubert on 15/16 MAY 1915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Festubert

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Was in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Berkshire Regiment

https://www.geni.com/projects/Royal-Berkshire-Regiment-WW1/31350

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Is commemorated at the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France, Panel 30

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Touret_Memorial

https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/85800/le-touret-memor...

https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/85800/le-touret-memor...

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/823306/alison,-laughton...

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Is listed on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission War Dead Records

https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results?firstName=laughton%...

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/823306/alison,-laughton...

https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/823306/alison,-laughton...

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Familysearch.org accessed 29 AUG 2018

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-5CHJ : Find a Grave Index

Name: Laughton Hassard Alison

Event Type: Burial

Event Date: 1915

Event Place: Richebourg-l'Avoue, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

Photograph Included: Y

Death Date: 15 May 1915

Affiliate Record Identifier: 15271087

Cemetery: Le Touret Memorial

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2XY5-SW6 : England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008

Name: Laughton Hassard Alison

Event Type: Birth Registration

Registration Quarter: Apr-May-Jun

Registration Year: 1890

Registration District: Wells

County: Somerset

Event Place: Wells, Somerset, England

Volume: 5C

Page: 485

Line Number: 179

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XWDW-HNS : England and Wales Census, 1911

Laughton Hassard Alison

England and Wales Census, 1911

Name: Laughton Hassard Alison

Event Type: Census

Event Date: 1911

Event Place: Beckenham, Beckenham, Kent, England

County: Kent

Parish: Beckenham

Sub-District: Beckenham

Registration District: Bromley

Gender: Male

Age: 20

Marital Status (Original): SINGLE

Occupation: STUDENT CAMBRIDGE NO OCCUPATIN

Birth Year (Estimated): 1891

Birthplace: Glastonbury, Somersetshire

Relationship to Head of Household: Visitor

Line: 6

Page: 1

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Stanley Faber Prest Head Male 52 Surham Sherbourne, Durham

Emily Charlotte Prest Wife Female 48 Aberdeen N B, Aberdeenshire

Herbert Jullion Prest Son Male 24 Barrow In Furness, Lancashire

Harold Edward Westray Prest Son Male 21 Beckenham, Kent

Vera Helen Prest Daughter Female 19 Beckenham, Kent

Laughton Hassard Alison Visitor Male 20 Glastonbury, Somersetshire

Emily Jane Harrison Servant Female 27 Glastonbury, Northumberland

Caroline Kennedy Coates Servant Female 24 Aberdeen N B Resident, Aberdeenshire

Florence Kathleen Davis Servant Female 24 Beckenham, Kent

Daisy Southwick Servant Female 16 London Battersea, London

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