Name
Alexandra James Gray
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/20736
King's Royal Rifle Corps
21st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 13 A and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Anne (nee MURRELL) and the late James GRAY; husband of Blanche Louise (nee FENNALL) GRAY.
His parents married 10 June 1861 at Marylebone Parish Church, London. James died 1899 in the Chelsea, London, district aged 60.
Alexander was born 1876 in either Kilburn, London, or Highgate, Middx, and married 1898 in the Kensington, London, district; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Blanche remarried 26 November 1927 at Holy Trinity, Richmond, Surrey, to Ernest Buckler MARTIN, and died 1947 in the Brentford, Middx, district aged 68.
On the 1881 Census, aged 5 he lived in Chelsea, with his parents and seven siblings. On the 1891 Census, he is proving elusive. On the 1901 Census, a railway clerk aged 25, he lived in Watford, with his wife and one child. On the 1911 Census, a journalist aged 34 he lived in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, with his wife and one child.
Recorded as born in Highgate, Middlx. and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Lambeth, Surrey.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Lambeth, London; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Alexander’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
