Name
Alfred Flitton
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27423
Bedfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FLAMSTEAD (ST. LEONARD) CHURCH, GOD'S ACRE
3. 18.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Flamstead Village Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Roll of Honour, Flamstead St Leonard's Church Roll of Honour, Flamstead
Pre War
Alfred was born in 1885 in Flamstead to David Flitton, Farm Labourer, and Elizabeth (nee White), a straw plaiter.
On the 1891 Census Alfrred was living at Pye Corner, Flamstead with his Father, Mother, brothers Henry, John, and sisters Elizabeth, Rose. On the 1901 Census still at Pye Corner with Father, Mother, John, and sisters Rose, Ellen (Nelly), and Daisy, Alfred was working as a carter on a farm. On the 1911 Census the family (Father, Mother, Alfred, John, Ellen and Daisy) were at Pye Corner.
Wartime Service
Alfred enlisted as Private 27423, Bedfordshire Regiment and later was transferred to Labour Corps 693rd Agricultural Coy as Private 509638. No details are available as no Service Record is available.
He died on 1 Nov 1918 in the Military Hospital, Aylesbury, Bucks, and is buried in St Laurence Church yard, Flamstead.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £6 5s and arrears of £14 3s 4d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Simon Goodwin, Gareth Hughes
