English: Alex Ichenhauser was born into a German Jewish family and lived in Furth in Bavaria. He served with the 14th Bavarian Infantry Regiment (10th Company) in 1917/18 at the Somme, Flanders and Cambrai. He was awarded the Bavarian Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Crown and Swords (see photos).

He was later forced to leave Germany in 1939, selling the artists brush factory which had been in the family for 100 years for a knock-down price to the factory foreman. He managed to obtain the funding and guarantees necessary to settle in England.

Contributed by his daughter-in-law, Margaret Ingram.

[Contributed via Age Exchange (http://www.age-exchange.org.uk) as part of the Children of the Great War project (http://www.childrenofthegreatwar.org.uk) at a collection day at RAF Hendon, UK on 20/11/2014. To see all material contributed by Age Exchange, or to see more contributions from this collection day, follow the links at http://www.childrenofthegreatwar.org.uk/archive.html - For further information email: greatwar@age-exchange.org.uk]