Name
Alwyn Bertram Robert Raphael Gosselin (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/02/1915
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Grenadier Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CUINCHY COMMUNAL CEMETERY
II. D. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wareside Village Memorial,
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Wareside,
Wideford Village Memorial,
Blakesware Manor, Widford,
St Joseph’s Church Memorial, Hertford,
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware,
Ware Town Memorial
Pre War
Only son of Sir Martin Le Marchant Hadsley Gosselin, G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., C.B., and the Hon. Lady Gosselin, of 41, Hill St., Mayfair, London and Blakesware, Wareside. Enlisted as regular in Grenadier Guards in 1901.
Wartime Service
Wounded in Sep 1914 and received DSO because he would not leave his post. Died when hit by shrapnel while attending to a wounded comrade who then survived because he was shielded from the explosion.
Additional Information
Alwyn is also commemorated in the family plot in St John the Baptist Churchyard by means of a monument and wall plaque. His inscription reads:
Gosselin Papers available in Hertfordshire County Archive.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Obituary in the Tablet 6 Mar 1915 p 24.
