Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AVELING, LANCELOT NEVILLE, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, only son of Neville Clifford Aveling, temporary Captain R.F.A., by his wife, Evelyn Mary, of St. Germans Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Captain Hurton Barker, of Needham House, near Wisbech, and grandson of Stephen Thomas Aveling, of Restoration House, Rochester; b. Rochester, 20 March, 1892; educated Gresham's Holt School; was for four years in the O.T.C., and shot at Bisley for school; joined the Surrey (Queen Mary's Own) Yeomanry 1911, and the Special Reserve of Officers (3rd Connaught Rangers) 13 June, 1913, and passed third in qualifying examination for Regular Army on mobilisation, being gazetted 1 Sept. He left with the Expeditionary Force for the Front at the end of August; was wounded (two bullet wounds) at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept.; again at Ypres, 7 Nov. (mentioned in Despatches, Feb. 1915); and a third time at the same place, 26 April, and d. in hospital at Hazebrouck three days later, being buried in the cemetery there; unmarried. His colonel wrote: "He was such a splendid officer and so charming a fellow. He is, indeed, an almost irreparable loss to my battalion.... He came to us with a very high reputation from the 2nd Battalion, and more than made it good. Gen. Egerton had especially asked for your boy's services for the day as orderly officer."
AVELING, LANCELOT NEVILLE, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, only son of Neville Clifford Aveling, temporary Captain R.F.A., by his wife, Evelyn Mary, of St. Germans Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Captain Hurton Barker, of Needham House, near Wisbech, and grandson of Stephen Thomas Aveling, of Restoration House, Rochester; b. Rochester, 20 March, 1892; educated Gresham's Holt School; was for four years in the O.T.C., and shot at Bisley for school; joined the Surrey (Queen Mary's Own) Yeomanry 1911, and the Special Reserve of Officers (3rd Connaught Rangers) 13 June, 1913, and passed third in qualifying examination for Regular Army on mobilisation, being gazetted 1 Sept. He left with the Expeditionary Force for the Front at the end of August; was wounded (two bullet wounds) at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept.; again at Ypres, 7 Nov. (mentioned in Despatches, Feb. 1915); and a third time at the same place, 26 April, and d. in hospital at Hazebrouck three days later, being buried in the cemetery there; unmarried. His colonel wrote: "He was such a splendid officer and so charming a fellow. He is, indeed, an almost irreparable loss to my battalion.... He came to us with a very high reputation from the 2nd Battalion, and more than made it good. Gen. Egerton had especially asked for your boy's services for the day as orderly officer."
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AVELING, LANCELOT NEVILLE, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, only son of Neville Clifford Aveling, temporary Captain R.F.A., by his wife, Evelyn Mary, of St. Germans Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Captain Hurton Barker, of Needham House, near Wisbech, and grandson of Stephen Thomas Aveling, of Restoration House, Rochester; b. Rochester, 20 March, 1892; educated Gresham's Holt School; was for four years in the O.T.C., and shot at Bisley for school; joined the Surrey (Queen Mary's Own) Yeomanry 1911, and the Special Reserve of Officers (3rd Connaught Rangers) 13 June, 1913, and passed third in qualifying examination for Regular Army on mobilisation, being gazetted 1 Sept. He left with the Expeditionary Force for the Front at the end of August; was wounded (two bullet wounds) at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept.; again at Ypres, 7 Nov. (mentioned in Despatches, Feb. 1915); and a third time at the same place, 26 April, and d. in hospital at Hazebrouck three days later, being buried in the cemetery there; unmarried. His colonel wrote: "He was such a splendid officer and so charming a fellow. He is, indeed, an almost irreparable loss to my battalion.... He came to us with a very high reputation from the 2nd Battalion, and more than made it good. Gen. Egerton had especially asked for your boy's services for the day as orderly officer."
AVELING, LANCELOT NEVILLE, Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, only son of Neville Clifford Aveling, temporary Captain R.F.A., by his wife, Evelyn Mary, of St. Germans Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Captain Hurton Barker, of Needham House, near Wisbech, and grandson of Stephen Thomas Aveling, of Restoration House, Rochester; b. Rochester, 20 March, 1892; educated Gresham's Holt School; was for four years in the O.T.C., and shot at Bisley for school; joined the Surrey (Queen Mary's Own) Yeomanry 1911, and the Special Reserve of Officers (3rd Connaught Rangers) 13 June, 1913, and passed third in qualifying examination for Regular Army on mobilisation, being gazetted 1 Sept. He left with the Expeditionary Force for the Front at the end of August; was wounded (two bullet wounds) at the Battle of the Aisne, 14 Sept.; again at Ypres, 7 Nov. (mentioned in Despatches, Feb. 1915); and a third time at the same place, 26 April, and d. in hospital at Hazebrouck three days later, being buried in the cemetery there; unmarried. His colonel wrote: "He was such a splendid officer and so charming a fellow. He is, indeed, an almost irreparable loss to my battalion.... He came to us with a very high reputation from the 2nd Battalion, and more than made it good. Gen. Egerton had especially asked for your boy's services for the day as orderly officer."
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Lieutenant, Connaught Rangers. Son of Mrs. Aveling, of St. Germans, Norfolk. Age 23.
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