Lieutenant Lionel Arthur Ashfield DFC was a World War I British flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.
The second son of Charles Edmund Ashfield and his wife Ida Lucy Hunt, Lionel Arthur Ashfield was born onAugust 1898 at Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England. He was christened there onAugust 1898. His father was the headmaster of Hazelhurst School in Frant, East Sussex. Lionel attended Marlborough College in Marlborough, Wiltshire, where he played cricket. He was admitted to the school in September 1912 and left in the spring of 1917.
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