Tournai Communal Cemetery Allied Extension, Belgium
Son of Lewis Le Brun, R.N. (retd.) and Isabella Mary
Le Brun, of "Enfield", Kingland Rd., Poole.
Killed in action, aged 22 years
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 14
November 1918
Roll of Honour. News has been received
of the death in action in Belgium on 31 October last
of 2nd Lieutenant L A Le Brun of the Hampshire Regiment
attached to the Somersets. The deceased officer was
the only son of Mr Lewis Le Brun of Poole and nephew
of Paymaster Captain W H Le Brun of HMS Victory and
Sans Ennui, St Aubin. He enlisted at the age of 19 in
the Royal Fusiliers and was wounded at the Battle of
the Somme, after gaining an OTC qualification he was
gazetted 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshires in May of
this year, and was attached to the Somerset Light Infantry
for service in France. He was only 22.
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
