Lieutenant Colonel ERNEST ALFRED BROOKE ALSTON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Northamptonshire Regiment
Date of Death
Died 11 August 1917
Age 40 years old
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- Secondary Unit, Regiment Commanding 10th Bn. Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Three times Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Surgeon Maj. William Evelyn Alston, M.D., J.P., of Eastcliffe House, Sandgate, Kent; husband of Eileen Finnis (formerly Alston), of Shirley Park Hotel, East Croydon.
- Personal Inscription HIS HEART FOR HOME HIS LIFE FOR COUNTRY HIS SOUL TO GOD
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