Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment was the son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs.Francis Litten of 21, Pembridge Villas, Notting Hill, London . He was born in 1883 and educated at the City of London School and in Germany. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1912.
On the outbreak of the war , he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and soon after received a Commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He went to France with his Battalion (6th.) in the following July and was Gazetted Captain in September.
He was Killed In Action on the 1st.July 1916, (First Day of The Battle of The Somme) Aged 32, at the head of his Company ('B') within the first hour, in the first wave of the attack.,
Seven brother officers of the 6th.Btn. died this day with six buried in a row together in Carnoy cemetery, the seventh is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing.
One of his brother officers wrote "I have lost , in him, a great personal friend, and the company have lost a commander who never spared in his efforts to look after them.
His company achieved its object in the attack - a fact that was greatly due to the energy and care which he displayed in his preparations"
Another wrote "His influence on his friends was very wide and lasting. That sense of duty in life that sent him cheerfully to his heroic end , was always making him a staff for the weak to lean on, an example to the timid"
Captain Litten was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1915. He took an enthusiastic interest in the welfare of the poorer classes and was ever ready to help them.
Raymond Litten is mentioned in the British Jewry Book of Honour.
Captain Raymond Litten, Royal Berkshire Regiment was the son of the late Tobias Raphael Litten and Mrs.Francis Litten of 21, Pembridge Villas, Notting Hill, London . He was born in 1883 and educated at the City of London School and in Germany. He became a member of the Stock Exchange in 1912.
On the outbreak of the war , he joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. and soon after received a Commission in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He went to France with his Battalion (6th.) in the following July and was Gazetted Captain in September.
He was Killed In Action on the 1st.July 1916, (First Day of The Battle of The Somme) Aged 32, at the head of his Company ('B') within the first hour, in the first wave of the attack.,
Seven brother officers of the 6th.Btn. died this day with six buried in a row together in Carnoy cemetery, the seventh is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing.
One of his brother officers wrote "I have lost , in him, a great personal friend, and the company have lost a commander who never spared in his efforts to look after them.
His company achieved its object in the attack - a fact that was greatly due to the energy and care which he displayed in his preparations"
Another wrote "His influence on his friends was very wide and lasting. That sense of duty in life that sent him cheerfully to his heroic end , was always making him a staff for the weak to lean on, an example to the timid"
Captain Litten was made a Freeman of the City of London in 1915. He took an enthusiastic interest in the welfare of the poorer classes and was ever ready to help them.
Raymond Litten is mentioned in the British Jewry Book of Honour.
Inscription
'ALL YOU HAD HOPED FOR ALL YOU HAD YOU GAVE TO SAVE MANKIND'
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