(Picture courtesy
of Beverly Mehlhoff)
Bombardier Arthur Raymond Laisney
475th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison
Artillery
02/12/1917
Only son of Peter Francis and Elizabeth Laisney (nee
du Feu), of Trinity, Jersey. Husband of Maggie May Laisney
(nee Carpenter), of 9, Cambridge Gardens, Hastings.
Died of pneumonia at the General Southern Hospital
in Portsmouth, aged 25 years.
Notice of Death appears in Jersey
Evening Post of Wednesday 5 December 1917
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Wednesday 5 December 1917
Roll of Honour. We regret to announce
the death which took place at the General Southern
Hospital in Portsmouth on Friday last of Bombardier
A R Laisney, Royal Garrison Artillery. The soldier
was the only son of the late Mr Peter F Laisney and
Mrs Laisney of L'Abri, Trinity and after serving an
apprenticeship with Au Gagne Petit, received an appointment
some 4 years ago with Thomas White & Co of Aldershot.
He joined up this year and was taken ill whilst training
and eventually passed away as stated above from pneumonia.
The late Bombardier, who was in his 26th year, leaves
a widow, nee Margaret May Carpenter, to mourn his
loss and to her and the mother and other relatives
we tender our sincere sympathy.
Commemorated on Trinity Parish Memorial, Jersey
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
(listed as "LAINEY")
