| Description | Work completed by volunteer includes the following information:
Alfred Noddle, an attendant at the East Riding Asylum at Broadgate, Walkington, enlisted in Hull on 17 May 1915 and joined the 3rd Northumbrian Field Ambulance of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Having opted to serve overseas he left the UK for the Salonika Front in the Balkans on 21 Sep 1916. Working as a nursing orderly, and reaching the rank of Lance-Corporal, he remained in the region until Feb 1919. He contracted malaria and was repatriated to the UK, finally leaving the army in Apr 1919. He was awarded the Silver Badge as he was considered unfit for further military service. He was also awarded a pension.
Alfred was described by Lt-Col Grey, CO of the 3rd NFA as, “reliable”, “intelligent” and a “total abstainer” and he was noted for the “excellence of his work and absolute dependance at any class of work.” He was awarded the War and Victory medals.
Alfred was born in Burton Agnes the 3 Aug 1886 and baptised in the parish church on 18 Oct 1886. He came from a farming family and was one of six children born to Richard Noddle and Emma (nee Ashby). Alfred worked as a farm labourer and was recorded in the 1901 census at Manor Farm, Haisthorpe. He later worked at the East Riding Asylum where between 1910 and 1913 he gained a Cert P.A. in nursing and was later a registered mental health nurse. On 7 Aug 1915 he returned from military service in the Newcastle area to marry Letitia Sample at Beverley Minster. Letitia also worked at the asylum as a housemaid. Between the wars Alfred continued to work at the asylum whilst the 1939 register records Letitia as being a housewife. They later moved to Newport, South Wales and they died there in 1976 and 1966 respectively.
Includes photograph, information taken from census, military records, Commonwealth War Graves, newspapers |