Name
Alexander Ernest Burchardt-Ashton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1916
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
8219
Royal Fusiliers *1
22nd (County of London) Bn., attached to 7th Bn. Durham Light Infantry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA LAITERIE MILITARY CEMETERY
II. C. 15.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 29 Oct 1887 in Maui, Hawaii, U.S.A. son of A. G. Burchardt. Educated at Haileybury 1903-04.
He married Avarina Mary Constance Humphreys in Cork, Ireland in Feb 1914 and had one child.
Wartime Service
Awarded Aviator’s Certificate in a Bristol Biplane on 16 Apr 1912. Killed in Action near Ypres
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (The Queens's).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
