Malvern College First World War Casualty

Captain Alick Lancelot Prince

Photo of Alick Lancelot Prince
House and time at Malvern: No 6, 1893 - 1896.

Regiment: North Lancashire Regt.
Died: 08 November 1914 aged 36 in Belgium. Killed in action near Kemmel.
Battle: First Battle of Ypres. Cemetery: Ypres Menin Gate P 41/43

Born on 12th Sept 1878. Son of T. T. Prince, Laurel Lodge, Barnet.
III—Lower V.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge; B.A. 1899; Manchester Regt. 1901; North Lancashire Regt. 1908; Captain 1912; Malay States Guides 1910-13; South African War 1901-02, Queen's Medal with 3 Clasps.
Great War. 1st Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Despatches.
He married Emma Caroline, daughter of William Beadell Bacon, Tunbridge Wells, and left two sons, Harold, born in November 1911, and Ralph Bacon, born in February 1914.

It was reported he was shot in the head but was too near the German lines to be reached.
Biography at IWM

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