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Alfred Gordon Wilson served as a private in the 1st Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment (no7095). He was killed in action on 29 Dec 1915, the Battalion was serving in Northern France, near Houplines. How Alfred was killed is not known but the Germans were regularly shelling Houplines and Armentieres. Alfred is buried at the Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension.
Alfred was born in Bridlington in 1888, the son of John Wilson, a joiner and Ann, a shopkeeper and confectioner on the High Street. In 1910 Alfred married Ellen Edith Hardy of 40 Keldgate, Beverley and in Apr 1911 they were living at Ivy Cottages, Marton Road, Bridlington. They may have been living in Beverley prior to his enlistment. Alfred was a bricklayer.
Alfred's widow, Ellen, remarried in Beverley in late in 1918. Her second husband Stephen William Anstee, who had been an Acting-Sergeant in the 2nd Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment. They moved to London and she died in 1989 in Sheffield.
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