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Name: LAVERTON, Henry Sanderson OBE (Lieut.-Col.)
Birth Date: 30 Jan 1873 Westbury, Wilts
Death Date: 1958 Cuckfield, Sussex
First Date: by 1914
Profession: Farmer
Married: 1. In Knightsbridge 30 May 1899 (div. 1913) Margaret Alice Manley Sims b. 1877, d. 19 Apr 1961 Basingstoke (later m. Francis Gordon Lowe 1884-1972); 2. 1935 Amy Kathleen Rudkin b. 14 Oct 1884 Newton Abbot, d. 1968 Cuckfield (prev. m. to Herbert Combe 1878-1931)
Book Reference: EAMR, Hut, Gazette, LG
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - 10/8/14 - Capt. 10/8/14; Major; Officer Commanding 9/11/14; Lt.-Col. 10/11/15
General Information:
EAMR - Photo of a Group of Officers. Photo of Four of Headquarters Mess.
EAMR - Judge at Military Sports - Christmas 1915
EAMR - Member of Officers' and Sergeants' Cricket Team - Christmas 1915 -
Gazette - 26/8/1914 - Appt. - Major H.S. Laverton, Second in Command Volunteer Forces, East Africa Mounted Rifles, to be Captain, to date August 10th 1914
Gazette - 4/11/1914 - Appt. - EAMR - To be Captain Commandant - Major H.S. Laverton, vice Captain H.H. Sandbach, killed in action on 3rd November 1914
London Gazette - 18 Nov 1918 - OBE for distinguished service in connection with military operations in East Africa - Lieut.-Colonel Henry Sanderson Laverton, Unattached List, EA Forces
Hut has H.S. Laverton 1920 Farm 173, Sergoit