Augustus Hess

Second Lieutenant Augustus George Hess was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1891, in Kensington, the only son of German-born stockbroker agent Julius Ferdinand and Alice Frances Hess (née Monck-Mason), born in India to Captain G.H. Monck-Mason. Hess studied at Winchester and New College, Oxford. He was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in August 1913.The Times (40790), p. 3: "Fallen Officers". 1 March 1915. 
Hess transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery in January. Aged 23, he died on 25 February 1915, of wounds received on the Western Front, while serving with "N" Battery, RHA.
He is buried in Bedford House Cemetery.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Hess, Augustus George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
Category:1891 births
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Category:British people of German descent
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