ASBREY, HAROLD WILFRED, Private, No. G. 15683, 13th (Sussex) Battn. The Royal Sussex Regt., s. of Samuel William Asbrey, of 75, Montague Street, Kettering, by his wife, Bertha Louisa, dau. of Arthur Farrer; b. Kettering, 5 Oct. 1896; educ. Laxton Grammar School, Oundle; Kettering Grammar School, where he passed the Oxford Senior Examination with First Class Honours; matriculated in 1915, after which he went to the Borough Road Training School. Isleworth, intending to take his degree, but enlisted 30 March, 1916; was attached to the Northamptonshire Regt., afterwards the Hertfordshire Regt., and subsequently to the Royal Sussex Regt., Trench Mortar Battery; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from 17 Aug. following, and was killed in action 13 Aug. 1917, by a bomb from an aeroplane while going into action at Messines, Buried four miles south-east of Ypres. A comrade wrote: “He was a good soldier, always willing and cheerful, and always fulfilled any duty he was called upon to do well. His loss is keenly felt by one and all in the battery.” Unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5