Fatally wounded by a ‘bursting rifle grenade’ in May 1915

Alfred was a millwright from Newark who enlisted into the 8th (Nottinghamshire) Battalion in March 1912 aged 18. He arrived in France with 46th Division in march 1915.

Albert and several men of 2/Lt Oates Platoon conducted a raid on the German trenches in the Kemmel Sector when they met a German patrol and Alfred was fatally wounded.

Alfred with several men from the 139th Brigade is buried in Locre Churchyard.