Alfred Charles Gissing
20 January 1896 – 27 November 1975
Alfred Charles Gissing, born in Epsom, Surrey, England, was an English writer and headmaster, and the youngest son of the English novelist George Gissing. Alfred went as a boarder to Gresham's School, Holt, becoming a House Prefect. While at Gresham's School, Alfred had been in the junior division of the Officers' Training Corps from January 1910 to August 1914, when, with war apparent, Alfred joined the British Army in July 1914. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in December 1915, and promoted to lieutenant in July 1917. After the war, Alfred Gissing remained in the army, serving in
