Alfred Charles Gissing

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 …