The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant A H Gregson

Second Lieutenant Alan Herbert GREGSON, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Syria, 19th April 1917, age 22.

15th April 1895, born , son of Herbert Boys and Edith Treacher Gregson, of Caton, Cecil Park, Pinner, Middlesex.

12th June 1895, Hornsey Rise, Islington, baptism of Alan Herbert Gregson, son of Herbert Boys, (Civil Engineer), and Edith Treacher Gregson, 61 Hornsey Rise Gardens.

1911 Census - Colet House, Gliddon Road, West Kensington, London W - Alan Herbert Gregson, boarder, age 15, single, school, born Crouch End, London.

Scholar of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Name not shown on College War Memorial.

29th February 1916, posted Theatre of War, Egypt.

1st September 1917, Probate - Gregson Alan Herbert of Cecil Park, Pinner, Middlesex. Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment, temporarily stationed at Shoreham-on-Sea , Sussex, died 19th April 1917 in Syria. Administration (with Will), London 1st September to Herbert Boys Gregson, engineer. Effects £166.

Buried at Gaza War Cemetery, XXX. D. 1., Iraq.

London Gazette 28th October 1916.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants, from Reserve Battalions, to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants (attached), retaining their Army seniority: A. H. Gregson.

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