Lieutenant
LANCELOT EDGAR (L E) ASHCROFT

• Lieutenant LANCELOT EDGAR ASHCROFT's Story

• 	Born 17 January 1897 in New Pleymouth, , New Zealand
  	Occupation Worked as a Bank Clerk prior to enlisting.
  	Enlisted 6 December 1915 in Victoria, British Columbia | Age: 18 years
  	Buried 9 April 1917 - VILLERS STATION CEMETERY | Age: 20 years

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Interesting Facts

• Born in New Pleymouth, New Zealand in 1897 to Albert and Emmeline Ashcroft. Both Lance and his brother were killed in WW1, the second by drowning en-route to Palestine. Lance and his brothers are both remembered both on the churches memorial alter and in a stained glass window in the 1916 memorial chapel. When he died just three days after his twentieth birthday, Lance had just returned to the front lines after a months-long bout of the measles. He was killed by a sniper during the earliest moments of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, after successfully leading his platoon to their objective. They were sent out as an advance party to destroy some machine gun emplacements before the main advance could take place.

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Fallen Soldiers from New Pleymouth , New Zealand

• Lieutenant
  ASHCROFT, LANCELOT EDGAR
  9 April 1917
  VILLERS STATION CEMETERY
  

Fallen Comrades of the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)

• Private
  MCARTHUR, FRED
  8 August 1918
  TORONTO CEMETERY
  
• Private
  PETERS, JAMES
  2 September 1918
  VIS-EN-ARTOIS BRITISH CEMETERY HAUCOURT
  
• Corporal
  DANN, WILLIAM DONALD
  20 March 1918
  SUCRERIE CEMETERY ABLAIN ST.-NAZAIRE
  
• Private
  GASS, GEORGE
  9 April 1916
  MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL
  
• Private
  MACDONALD, ROBERT
  25 May 1917
  SHORNCLIFFE MILITARY CEMETERY
  
• Private
  CARRICK, THOMAS
  19 August 1917
  VIMY MEMORIAL
  
• Private
  WATMORE, THOMAS HAROLD
  21 May 1915
  VIMY MEMORIAL
  
• Private
  ROWE, LEONARD FREDERICK
  10 May 1917
  CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY
  
• Lance Corporal
  BARDELL, HAROLD
  9 April 1917
  VIMY MEMORIAL
  
• Captain
  MACGREGOR, ARCHIBALD ROBERT
  24 April 1915
  PERTH CEMETERY (CHINA WALL)
  
• Private
  BENNETT, CHARLES
  21 September 1916
  WARLOY-BAILLON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
  
• Company Sergeant Major
  GRAHAM, DAVID
  20 June 1918
  GEZAINCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION