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Captain Alfred Charles Aubin

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Captain Alfred Charles Aubin

Birth
Bailiwick of Jersey
Death
30 Aug 1914 (aged 35)
Garoua, Bénoué Division, North, Cameroon
Burial
Lokoja, Kogi, Nigeria Add to Map
Memorial ID
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Regiment/Service: East Lancashire Regiment
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

AUBIN, ALFRED CHARLES, Captain, East Lancashire Regt. (attached West African Field Force), son of Alfred Jackson Aubin, of Belle Vue, Lower King's Cliff, Jersey, by his wife, Christiana Spark; b. 16 Oct. 1878; educated Bedford Grammar School and Oxford Univ.; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia to the East Lancashire Regt. 21 April, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 11 Sept. 1901, and Captain 12 Feb. 1913; served in South Africa with the Mounted Infantry as a Railway Staff Officer, 1899-1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (Queen's medal with three clasps and King's medal with two clasps); employed with the West African Frontier Force (local Captain 11 Jan. 1911) from July, 1904, to Feb. 1909, and again from Jan. 1911; killed in action at Garua, in the Cameroons, 30 Aug. 1914; unmarried.
Regiment/Service: East Lancashire Regiment
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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

AUBIN, ALFRED CHARLES, Captain, East Lancashire Regt. (attached West African Field Force), son of Alfred Jackson Aubin, of Belle Vue, Lower King's Cliff, Jersey, by his wife, Christiana Spark; b. 16 Oct. 1878; educated Bedford Grammar School and Oxford Univ.; gazetted 2nd Lieutenant from the Militia to the East Lancashire Regt. 21 April, 1900, and promoted Lieutenant 11 Sept. 1901, and Captain 12 Feb. 1913; served in South Africa with the Mounted Infantry as a Railway Staff Officer, 1899-1902, taking part in the operations in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (Queen's medal with three clasps and King's medal with two clasps); employed with the West African Frontier Force (local Captain 11 Jan. 1911) from July, 1904, to Feb. 1909, and again from Jan. 1911; killed in action at Garua, in the Cameroons, 30 Aug. 1914; unmarried.

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