WWI obituary 1916> William C.C. Ash> Sussex U.K.
from U.K. "The Times" Newspaper, October 5, 1916, page 10, mentioned under "list of casualties"...
"Lieutenant-Colonel William Claudius Casson Ash, D.S.O., Middlesex Regiment, who has died of wounds received on September 15, was the elder son of Mr. William Henry Ash, of 51, Hamilton-Terrace, N.W., and Heathfield, Sussex.He was born in 1870, and, after being educated at Westminster School, entered the Army on September 28, 1892, as second Lieutenant, and was promoted captain in 1900.He served in the South African War during 1902 as adjutant of the 5th Middlesex Regiment, and was promoted major in 1909.He was stationed at Malta with another battalion of his regiment when war was declared.He was wounded at Loos on September 25, 1915, and in the following month was gazetted lieutenant-colonel.In January of this year he was mentioned in dispatches and later received the D.S.O."
(*I'm not related...just sharing information found in very old bound volume of "The Times" newspapers)