Private Lars Aslagsen was a soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Stavanger, Norway, the son of Guttorm and Elizabeth Aslagsen, who went onto settle in Durham, England by the 1891 Census. The younger Aslagsen married, in 1905, to Susannah Welch.
Aslagsen died on 30 July 1917, on the Western Front, while serving with the 1/5th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. He had formerly belonged to the East Yorkshire Regiment and had enlisted in March 1916.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Menin Gate Memorial.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Aslagsen, Lars, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2013.