Second Lieutenant David Newbold Gaussen

9th Bedfordshire Regiment, attached 1st

Killed in Action 31st July 1916

Son of the Rev. Charles E. and Mary Gaussen, of Fairview Cottage, Lord's Well Lane, Crowborough, Sussex.

Dernancourt Communal Cemetery, J. 40.

Although the Commonwealth War Graves Commission records David Gaussen's parents as being in Sussex, this could well be a post-war address and the 1911 Census shows the family living at Potten End Vicarage, with Charles Gaussen described as a 'Clerk in Holy Orders, Church of England'.  David, then age 17, was listed as being at school, and had been born in Liverpool.  The memorial also carries a dedication to others from the area who died in the First World War.

Memorial to David Gaussen at Holy Trinity, Potten End

(Photo: Richard Grayson, 11th September 2014)