Name
Alfred Franklin (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15514
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
S. III. I. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Redbourn Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Redbourn
Pre War
Born in 1887 in Redbourn Herts. son of George and Harriett (Cass) Franklin. He was living in Redbourn in 1901 as a stable boy and was a boarder with his sister Kate and brother-in-law John McGrath in Redbourn as a hay carter in 1911.
Address later given as 4 Alma Cut, St Albans.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford entered France on 26 Jul 1915 and died of pneumonia probably in hospital at Rouen.
Additional Information
Best guess - No detail - only A Franklin with 2nd Beds - RoH dod shown March 1918 near Cambrai. Brother of Private William George Franklin who died of wounds on 16 Aug 1917 and who is also commemorated on this memorial.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
