Olaf Engvist

Private Olaf Ludwig Engvist (born Enqvist) was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1899, in Poplar, the son of labourer Ludvig and Annette Enqvist, of Sweden and Norway, respectively. At the time of the 1911 Census, the Engvist family were residing at 46 East Ferry Road, Cubitt Town.
Aged 18, Engvist died on 9 April 1918, during the Battle of the Lys, while serving with the 23rd (Service) Battalion (4th Tyneside Scottish), The Northumberland Fusiliers on the Western Front.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Ploegsteert Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Engvist, Olaf Ludwig, cwgc.org. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
Category:1899 births
Category:1918 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Swedish descent
Category:British people of Norwegian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Ploegsteert Memorial
Category:Privates