Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: London Regiment 17th Battalion.
Age: 25 years old.
Aganoor John Aganoor was born in Feltham on 29 August 1891. He was the son of the late Petrus Basil Aganoor and Mabel Frances Aganoor (Nee Burnett -now Countess Annesley, of Frilsham, near Hermitage, Berks). His father, born in the Dutch East Indies, was of Armenian extraction. He came to Britain via the Netherlands. As a naturalised British Citizen he was a successful businessman.
Aganoor had two sisters, one a year older, Kathleen, and one 3 years younger Margaret Cicely. The family lived at 52 Bath Road, Chiswick, London. Sadly, his father died on the 25th November 1898 leaving his widow and three young children, with no means of support.
In the 1901 census the family were living with his mother's elderly parents. Aganoor attended Harrow House School, Westhampnett in Sussex before becoming a boarder at Christs Hospital School, in Horsham, West Sussex. Christ's Hospital was a charity school, specialising in providing boarding school education for children whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford it. In her application to the school his mother wrote: "having for ten years been in possession of a comfortable home, I was on the death of my husband left totally unprovided for, he having been ruined through ill health and misfortune".
Having applied, passed the entrance exam, the medical, provided the necessary references and birth certificate and been successfully nominated, Aganoor's family paid no fees for his schooling between 1901 and 1907. When he left in December 1907, he was articled to a solicitor in Horsham.
In November 1909, when he was 18 years old, Aganoor went to work for the London County & Westminster Bank. In 1913 he was placed 15th nationally in the Institute of Bankers' final examination.
During the First World War Aganoor left his job at the bank's London Victoria branch to join the army.
He enlisted as a Private in the 1/16th Londons, Queen's Westminster Rifles on outbreak of war in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front in November 1914 where he served until receiving his commission. In August 1915 he completed an application form for "A candidate for appointment to a commission in the Territorial Force." The Regiment or Corps for which he was recommended was the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles.
On 12 October 1915 there had been a request to the Officer Commanding the Queen's Westminster Rifles, BEF from JM Edwin, the Captain and Adjutant of the 3/17th Londons who were based at Tadworth saying "if you would be good enough to allow 1770 Rfn AJ Aganoor if he is successful in obtaining a commission, to be appointed to the unit under my command as I should like him for an officer in my regiment. "
He was gazetted into the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles, on the 3rd December 1915.
He was killed in action at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. His body was buried near where he fell at High Wood but it was exhumed, along with several other bodies, in 1920 and re-buried in its final resting place at Caterpillar Valley, Longueval.
Aganoor is commemorated on Christs Hospital School War Memorial, Horsham, West Sussex, the Nat West Group Roll of Honour and the London County Westminster & Parr's Bank Sports Club War Memorial, Norbury.
In 1924, his widowed mother married the Earl of Annesley. She always placed an annual 'In Memoriam' notice to him in The Times on the anniversary of his death until she died in July 1931.
(source: IWM, Find My Past, Great War Forum, the Peerage)
Regiment: London Regiment 17th Battalion.
Age: 25 years old.
Aganoor John Aganoor was born in Feltham on 29 August 1891. He was the son of the late Petrus Basil Aganoor and Mabel Frances Aganoor (Nee Burnett -now Countess Annesley, of Frilsham, near Hermitage, Berks). His father, born in the Dutch East Indies, was of Armenian extraction. He came to Britain via the Netherlands. As a naturalised British Citizen he was a successful businessman.
Aganoor had two sisters, one a year older, Kathleen, and one 3 years younger Margaret Cicely. The family lived at 52 Bath Road, Chiswick, London. Sadly, his father died on the 25th November 1898 leaving his widow and three young children, with no means of support.
In the 1901 census the family were living with his mother's elderly parents. Aganoor attended Harrow House School, Westhampnett in Sussex before becoming a boarder at Christs Hospital School, in Horsham, West Sussex. Christ's Hospital was a charity school, specialising in providing boarding school education for children whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford it. In her application to the school his mother wrote: "having for ten years been in possession of a comfortable home, I was on the death of my husband left totally unprovided for, he having been ruined through ill health and misfortune".
Having applied, passed the entrance exam, the medical, provided the necessary references and birth certificate and been successfully nominated, Aganoor's family paid no fees for his schooling between 1901 and 1907. When he left in December 1907, he was articled to a solicitor in Horsham.
In November 1909, when he was 18 years old, Aganoor went to work for the London County & Westminster Bank. In 1913 he was placed 15th nationally in the Institute of Bankers' final examination.
During the First World War Aganoor left his job at the bank's London Victoria branch to join the army.
He enlisted as a Private in the 1/16th Londons, Queen's Westminster Rifles on outbreak of war in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front in November 1914 where he served until receiving his commission. In August 1915 he completed an application form for "A candidate for appointment to a commission in the Territorial Force." The Regiment or Corps for which he was recommended was the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles.
On 12 October 1915 there had been a request to the Officer Commanding the Queen's Westminster Rifles, BEF from JM Edwin, the Captain and Adjutant of the 3/17th Londons who were based at Tadworth saying "if you would be good enough to allow 1770 Rfn AJ Aganoor if he is successful in obtaining a commission, to be appointed to the unit under my command as I should like him for an officer in my regiment. "
He was gazetted into the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles, on the 3rd December 1915.
He was killed in action at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. His body was buried near where he fell at High Wood but it was exhumed, along with several other bodies, in 1920 and re-buried in its final resting place at Caterpillar Valley, Longueval.
Aganoor is commemorated on Christs Hospital School War Memorial, Horsham, West Sussex, the Nat West Group Roll of Honour and the London County Westminster & Parr's Bank Sports Club War Memorial, Norbury.
In 1924, his widowed mother married the Earl of Annesley. She always placed an annual 'In Memoriam' notice to him in The Times on the anniversary of his death until she died in July 1931.
(source: IWM, Find My Past, Great War Forum, the Peerage)
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Regiment: London Regiment 17th Battalion.
Age: 25 years old.
Aganoor John Aganoor was born in Feltham on 29 August 1891. He was the son of the late Petrus Basil Aganoor and Mabel Frances Aganoor (Nee Burnett -now Countess Annesley, of Frilsham, near Hermitage, Berks). His father, born in the Dutch East Indies, was of Armenian extraction. He came to Britain via the Netherlands. As a naturalised British Citizen he was a successful businessman.
Aganoor had two sisters, one a year older, Kathleen, and one 3 years younger Margaret Cicely. The family lived at 52 Bath Road, Chiswick, London. Sadly, his father died on the 25th November 1898 leaving his widow and three young children, with no means of support.
In the 1901 census the family were living with his mother's elderly parents. Aganoor attended Harrow House School, Westhampnett in Sussex before becoming a boarder at Christs Hospital School, in Horsham, West Sussex. Christ's Hospital was a charity school, specialising in providing boarding school education for children whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford it. In her application to the school his mother wrote: "having for ten years been in possession of a comfortable home, I was on the death of my husband left totally unprovided for, he having been ruined through ill health and misfortune".
Having applied, passed the entrance exam, the medical, provided the necessary references and birth certificate and been successfully nominated, Aganoor's family paid no fees for his schooling between 1901 and 1907. When he left in December 1907, he was articled to a solicitor in Horsham.
In November 1909, when he was 18 years old, Aganoor went to work for the London County & Westminster Bank. In 1913 he was placed 15th nationally in the Institute of Bankers' final examination.
During the First World War Aganoor left his job at the bank's London Victoria branch to join the army.
He enlisted as a Private in the 1/16th Londons, Queen's Westminster Rifles on outbreak of war in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front in November 1914 where he served until receiving his commission. In August 1915 he completed an application form for "A candidate for appointment to a commission in the Territorial Force." The Regiment or Corps for which he was recommended was the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles.
On 12 October 1915 there had been a request to the Officer Commanding the Queen's Westminster Rifles, BEF from JM Edwin, the Captain and Adjutant of the 3/17th Londons who were based at Tadworth saying "if you would be good enough to allow 1770 Rfn AJ Aganoor if he is successful in obtaining a commission, to be appointed to the unit under my command as I should like him for an officer in my regiment. "
He was gazetted into the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles, on the 3rd December 1915.
He was killed in action at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. His body was buried near where he fell at High Wood but it was exhumed, along with several other bodies, in 1920 and re-buried in its final resting place at Caterpillar Valley, Longueval.
Aganoor is commemorated on Christs Hospital School War Memorial, Horsham, West Sussex, the Nat West Group Roll of Honour and the London County Westminster & Parr's Bank Sports Club War Memorial, Norbury.
In 1924, his widowed mother married the Earl of Annesley. She always placed an annual 'In Memoriam' notice to him in The Times on the anniversary of his death until she died in July 1931.
(source: IWM, Find My Past, Great War Forum, the Peerage)
Regiment: London Regiment 17th Battalion.
Age: 25 years old.
Aganoor John Aganoor was born in Feltham on 29 August 1891. He was the son of the late Petrus Basil Aganoor and Mabel Frances Aganoor (Nee Burnett -now Countess Annesley, of Frilsham, near Hermitage, Berks). His father, born in the Dutch East Indies, was of Armenian extraction. He came to Britain via the Netherlands. As a naturalised British Citizen he was a successful businessman.
Aganoor had two sisters, one a year older, Kathleen, and one 3 years younger Margaret Cicely. The family lived at 52 Bath Road, Chiswick, London. Sadly, his father died on the 25th November 1898 leaving his widow and three young children, with no means of support.
In the 1901 census the family were living with his mother's elderly parents. Aganoor attended Harrow House School, Westhampnett in Sussex before becoming a boarder at Christs Hospital School, in Horsham, West Sussex. Christ's Hospital was a charity school, specialising in providing boarding school education for children whose parents would not otherwise be able to afford it. In her application to the school his mother wrote: "having for ten years been in possession of a comfortable home, I was on the death of my husband left totally unprovided for, he having been ruined through ill health and misfortune".
Having applied, passed the entrance exam, the medical, provided the necessary references and birth certificate and been successfully nominated, Aganoor's family paid no fees for his schooling between 1901 and 1907. When he left in December 1907, he was articled to a solicitor in Horsham.
In November 1909, when he was 18 years old, Aganoor went to work for the London County & Westminster Bank. In 1913 he was placed 15th nationally in the Institute of Bankers' final examination.
During the First World War Aganoor left his job at the bank's London Victoria branch to join the army.
He enlisted as a Private in the 1/16th Londons, Queen's Westminster Rifles on outbreak of war in August 1914. He was posted to the Western Front in November 1914 where he served until receiving his commission. In August 1915 he completed an application form for "A candidate for appointment to a commission in the Territorial Force." The Regiment or Corps for which he was recommended was the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles.
On 12 October 1915 there had been a request to the Officer Commanding the Queen's Westminster Rifles, BEF from JM Edwin, the Captain and Adjutant of the 3/17th Londons who were based at Tadworth saying "if you would be good enough to allow 1770 Rfn AJ Aganoor if he is successful in obtaining a commission, to be appointed to the unit under my command as I should like him for an officer in my regiment. "
He was gazetted into the 17th City of London, Poplar and Stepney Rifles, on the 3rd December 1915.
He was killed in action at High Wood during the Battle of the Somme on 15 September 1916. His body was buried near where he fell at High Wood but it was exhumed, along with several other bodies, in 1920 and re-buried in its final resting place at Caterpillar Valley, Longueval.
Aganoor is commemorated on Christs Hospital School War Memorial, Horsham, West Sussex, the Nat West Group Roll of Honour and the London County Westminster & Parr's Bank Sports Club War Memorial, Norbury.
In 1924, his widowed mother married the Earl of Annesley. She always placed an annual 'In Memoriam' notice to him in The Times on the anniversary of his death until she died in July 1931.
(source: IWM, Find My Past, Great War Forum, the Peerage)
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