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Basra War Cemetery & Memorial, Nasiriyah, Iraq
Notice of Death appears in Jersey
Evening Post of Monday 30 November 1914
Commemorated on OV Memorial, Jersey
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 30 November 1914
Death of a Jersey Officer in the Persian
Gulf. News has been received of the death of Lieutenant
A L N Maxwell-Moffat of the 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire
Regiment who succumbed to the wounds received in the
Persian Gulf about 17 November. The deceased officer
who was the son of the late Dr Maxwell-Moffat, who practised
for many years in Jersey, was 24. He was a pupil at
Victoria College from 1902-08 and was the first Lieutenant
to serve under Captain R R Raymer when the CCF was formed,
afterwards he took a commission in the Jersey Militia
and was later commissioned in the Prince of Wales West
Yorkshire Regiment. He was subsequently transferred
to the 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment stationed
at Poonah, where he was Brigade Signalling Officer.
His mother is still living and resides at Lee on Solent.
