Name
Alfred Soames (DSO)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
53
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Distinguished Service Order
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 15 to 19.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on Sep 1862 son of the Rev. Charles Soames, Rector of Mildenhall, Wiltshire and Lydia Gordon (Merriman) Soames. Educated at Haileybury College 1876-78.
Wartime Service
Entered France on 31 May 1915 and was killed in action near Hulluch at the Battle of Loos.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
