Biography

Biography

2nd LIEUTENANT (temp.) ALFRED SANG, INTELLIGENCE CORPS, was born in Paris on the 6th September, 1876, the son of Frederic J. Sang, Marine Artist, and Johanna Garth. After an elementary education in France he was at Ratcliffe College, England, and subsequently at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris. II*- was possessed of considerable mathematical and mechanical ability, and in 1900 he invented a calculating machine. In that year he went to the United States, and at Pittsburg specialised in the corrosion of metals and means for its prevention, publishing a book on the subject. He also contributed to many scientific publications. Returning to Paris in 1909, he founded the company of Sang & Rafinesque, metallurgical engineers, and later still the firm of Sang & Russell in London. He was elected a member of the Royal Society of Arts in 1911, from whose journal of the 27th November, 1914, many of the details of this biography have been taken. Prior to the war 2nd Lieutenant Sang had no military experience, but on its outbreak he at once volunteered for the Intelligence Corps, for which he was specially fitted, as he spoke English and French equally well, and also had a thorough knowledge of German. Moreover, the roads of Northern France were familiar to him, as he was an ardent cyclist. His services were accepted and he was given a temporary commission as 2nd Lieutenant in August, 1911. He was severely wounded in the head on or about the 9th September, 1914, by shrapnel, and died in No. 8 Hospital, Rouen, France, on the 2nd October, 1914. 2nd Lieutenant Sang married Sara Alice Spang, of Pittsburg, Pa., U.S.A., and left three children : Frederick, aged fifteen ; Elizabeth Ewing, aged ten ; and Henry, aged eight years.

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