 Son John died at the age of twelve.Second Lieutenant Christopher Hal Lawrence (1893 - 1914), of the 2nd Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps, educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was killed by a sniper in the trenches during action on 13 October 1914, during World War I, less than two weeks after arriving in France.The location of his grave is unknown and he is commemorated at the La Ferté-sous-Jouarre memorial.