Second Lieutenant Wilfrid Arthur Kohn was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 31 October 1893, at Kensington, the only son of Austrian-born stockbroker Arthur and his wife Rosie Kohn (née Ochs), of London. Kohn studied at Marlborough College and Heidelberg College, in Germany.[1] He enlisted in September 1914, joining the ranks of the Public Schools' Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.
Kohn obtained his commission in May 1915, at which he was allocated to the 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington), The East Lancashire Regiment.[2] He died on 1 July 1916, on the first day of the Somme Offensive, during his battalion's attack on Serre.
He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps.
Notes[]
- ↑ Biographical history of Gonville and Caius college, 1349-1897, Volume 5, p. 139.
- ↑ The Accrington Pals, pals.org.uk. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
References[]
- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Kohn, Wilfred Arthur, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 July 2013.