Name
Alfred Williamson
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
6044
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAMBRIN CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
H.23
France
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial
Not on the Baldock memorials
Pre War
Son of the late William and Rhoda Selina Bonner Williamson of Baldock, Herts.
Wartime Service
He was posted to France on the 11th August 1914. On the 25th September 1915, the Battalion were in Trenches near the village of Cambrin. They made an early morning assault on German positons but this quickly failed, and the Battalion were forced to withdraw, having suffered a total of 455 casualties in Killed, Wounded and Missing.
Additional Information
His brother, William Williamson, was killed in action on the 1st October 1918, whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He has no known grave and his name is recorded on the Vis-En-artois Memorial, France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
