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INDENTLieutenant Alaric Charles Henry Borough, born 1894, educated at Charterhouse - left there in 1910, and took up tea planting in Ceylon; returned to England, was commissioned into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, transferred to the Welsh Guards, 2nd Lieutenant October, 1916 and proceeded to France 14 March, 1917; Lieutenant August 1917. The Regimental History shows him as serving with No. 2 Company when he was killed in action 1 December 1917 - page 186 states "... In front of the men were Webb, well ahead on the right, Borough, Roderick and Hargreaves on the left, quiet dignified figures lying with their faces towards the enemy ..." Of the 370 men who started to storm the hill, 248 were down in the first three minutes."