Captain Claude LOUSADA
Cavalry Remount Service

Date of birth: 7th March 1878
Date of death: 28th August 1934

Survived aged 56
Buried at Hoop Lane Cemetery, Golders Green
Claude Lousada was born at 30 Norfolk Square in London on the 7th of March 1878 the younger son of Herbert George Lousada, a solicitor and director of the Anglo Jewish Association of London, and Marion Helen (nee Mocatta) Lousada of 27 Green Street, Grosvenor Square in London.

He was educated at Hazelwood School until December 1892 when he left for Malvern College where he was in Faber House from January 1893 to December 1896. On leaving school he became a clerk at the London Stock Exchange.

In 1915 he was a warden of the West London Synagogue of British Jews at Upper Berkeley Street, London W1.

He was commissioned as a temporary Lieutenant in the Cavalry Remount Service, on the 23rd of January 1918 and was appointed as a 2nd Assistant Superintendent in the Remount Service on the same day. He went to France in April 1918 and served at the War Office later that year. He was promoted to temporary Captain and to 1st Assistant Superintendent of a Remount Squadron on the 18th of April 1919 and relinquished the rank when he resigned his commission on the 26th of September 1919. He left the army with the honorary rank of Lieutenant.

He was married at Marylebone in 1904 to Maude Lilian (nee Spielmann); they had three children, Jack Claude, born on the 10th of July 1906, Eric George born on the 31st of December 1909 and Marion Irene born on the 30th of April 1917.

He died at his home, 152 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park in London.
Went on to Malvern College

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