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Alfred was born in Beverley on 30 Jan 1899 and was baptised in Beverley Minster on 18 Feb 1899, the son of Alfred, a tanner, and Elizabeth, they family lived at 14, Cherry Tree Terrace, Grovehill Road, Beverley.
Alfred enlisted joining the East Yorkshire Regiment serving as a Private, he was later transferred to 1st Lincolnshire regiment and was awarded the British and the Victory Medal. In September 1918 the Battle of Epehy and Canal Du Nord took place, during an attack on Gonnelieu on 29 Sep, Alfred was taken prisoner and was taken to Jeumont on the Belgian border, due east of Maubeuge and south east of Mons. He was held at a camp at Dulmen between Wesel and Osnabruck near the Dutch border. It was reported in the Lincolnshire Echo, that Alfred was repatriated back to England on 29 Nov 1918 and was allowed home leave on 13 Dec 1918.
Alfred stayed in the Territorial Army after the war and in 1934 he was serving with the Territorial Army Reserve as a Second Lieutenant with the 5th Battalion of the Green Howard Regiment. In 1936 he was serving with the Indian Army and in Bombay he married Florence Beatrice Strothard of Hull and had sailed from Liverpool with her daughter Margaret Strothard aged 5 to Bombay on 30 Sep 1936.
In Sep1940, Alfred was a temporary Lieutenant and an Assistant Commissioner in the Indian Army Departments. On 6 Mr 1941 he was seconded to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. In Feb 1942 serving as a Captain with the 16 SLS RIASC Regiment he was taken prisoner by the Japanese Army. Alfred was released in 1945 after 3 years of captivity and was reunited with his family in India. In 1947 the family returned to Hull. Alfred died in 1960 .
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