Otto Lorenzen

Second Lieutenant Otto Hans Herman Lorenzen was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1893, in London, the son of Danish-born Christian Carl, a chronometer maker, and Ellen Elizabeth Lorenzen, of London. At the time of the 1911 census, Lorenzen was working as a clerk while living with his family at Dalkeith, The Bishops Avenue.
Lorenzen enlisted as an other rank on 3 September 1914, in the 3/9th (City of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria's Own), The London Regiment, with which he eventually attained the rank of acting corporal.McDonald, Alan (2008), "A Lack of Offensive Spirit?": The 46th (North Midland) Division at Gommecourt 1st July 1916, p. 469. He obtained a commission in September 1915, in the 4/7th Battalion, The Middlesex Regiment and arrived on the Western Front in May 1916. He died a month later, on 2 July, at No. 20 Casualty Clearing Station, of wounds received on the first day of the Somme Offensive. while attached to the 1/5th Battalion, The Lincolnshire Regiment.
He is buried in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Lorenzen, Otto Hans Herman, cwgc.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
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