Strain, Alan Gordon, brother of John Loudon Strain (qv); b. 1 Dec. 1914; adm. Jan. 1928 (A); left July 1933; Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; Sgt Army Educational Corps; d. on active service 10 Aug. 1943.
Alan Gordon Strain was born at Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey on the 1st of December 1914 the fifth and youngest son of Dr. William Loudon Strain MD CM and Dorothy Maud (nee Savory) Strain of 4, Hove Court, Raymond Road, Wimbledon in Surrey. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from January 1928 to July 1933. He matriculated for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1934 and was awarded a BA in 1937. On leaving university he went to work as a school teacher at Collington Rise Preparatory School, Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex.
He enlisted in the Army Educational Corps where he rose to the rank of Sergeant. He was taken ill and was in a hospital at Epsom for three months before he died.
His brother, Captain John Loudon Strain OW, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action on the 31st of July 1917.
He is buried at Putney Vale Cemetery and Crematorium Block I, Grave 363.