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| Lieutenant Hubert Leslie RUSSELL | |
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27th Light Cavalry, Indian Army Date of birth: 28th December 1899 Date of death: 1st September 1919 Killed on active service aged 19 Buried at Rawalpindi War Cemetery Plot I Row A Grave 18 |
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| Hubert Leslie Russell was born at 13 Lanier Road, Lewisham on the 28th of December 1899 the only son of Hubert Russell OL, an electrical engineer, and Alice Maud (nee Hillman) Russell of “South View”, Leigh near Tonbridge in Kent. He was educated at Lancing College where he was in Seconds House from September 1910 to July 1917. He was a Sergeant in the Officer Training Corps, a member of the Gymnasium Team from 1915 to 1917 and was team Captain in 1917. He was appointed as a House Captain in 1916 and as a Prefect in 1917. On leaving school he went to the Cadet College at Quetta in India after which he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 27th Light Cavalry from the Unattached List on the 5th of September 1918. He served as Aide de Camp to Brigadier General W.G. Walton, Commanding Officer of the Jubblepore Brigade, in 1919 and served as a Staff Lieutenant in the Derajat Field force He was killed in a railway accident at Rawalpindi in India. He is commemorated on the war memorial and on a carved prayer desk at St Mary’s Church at Leigh in Kent. |
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