Alexander Gifford Ludford-Astley ¹⁷

  General Notes:

From CWGC:

ASTLEY, ALEXANDER GIFFORD LUDFORD
Initials: A G L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Captain
Regiment/Service: 14th (King's) Hussars
Date of Death: 05/03/1917
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 2.
Memorial: BASRA MEMORIAL

  Noted events in his life were:

1. He appeared on the census in 1891 in Cadeby, Leicestershire.

2. He appeared on the Military Overseas census in 1911 in Bangalore, Mysore, India. ¹⁰ 14th King's Hussars D Squadron

3. Resided: 5 March 1917, Bredon House, Bredon, Worcestershire. ¹³

4. He had an estate probated on 13 June 1917 in London.

Alexander married Mary Christobel Young in 1914 in Chelsea, London.²⁷