Gordon Alexander

Second Lieutenant Gordon Reuben Alexander was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1885, in Kensington, the only son of James Moses, a member of the Stock Exchange, and Florence Helen Alexander (née Healy), of Kent and Middlesex, respectively. Alexander attended Harrow and, as a member of "The Sword Club", won the Amateur Foils Championship of 1913.The Times (41469), Col E, p. 9: "Fallen Officers". 4 May 1917. In the previous year, he had represented Great Britain in the Stockholm Olympics without success. Gordon Alexander, sports-reference.com. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
Alexander, who had entered his father's firm of J.D. Alexander & Co., volunteered on the outbreak of war in August 1914.. He joined the ranks of the 10th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers, constituted from a nucleus of City workers.Simkins, Peter (1988), Kitchener's Army: The Raising of the New Armies, 1914-16, p. 83. As an other rank, Alexander went to France in July 1915. He was commissioned in January, in the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment, and was then attached to the 13th East Surrey Regiment. He died on 24 April 1917, killed by a shell alongside a wounded soldier he was attending to.
He is buried in Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Alexander, Gordon R., cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
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