Lieutenant EDWARD KITTOW VENNING ASHTON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)
Date of Death
Died 04 December 1918
Age 22 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)
- Country of Service Indian
- Additional Info Son of Richard Laurence Ashton and Augusta Ashton, of Lower Alsworthy, Bradworthy, Devon. He went to India in Sept., 1914 with the 1st/4th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Inf., and from there joined the 55th Coke's Rifles (F.F.). Was attached to the Lancers on their departure for France in 1917 and served with them in France and Palestine.
- Personal Inscription MORS JANUA VITAE
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