Name
Alfred Goodman Harrison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1918
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Ordinary Seaman
SS/9894
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Pembroke"
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. IPPOLLITTS (ST. IPPOLYT) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Ippolyts Village Memorial
Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church
CWGC Head Stone, St Ippolyts Churchyard, St Ippolyts, Herts.
Pre War
Alfred was born on the 3rd October 1900 in St Ippolyts, Herts. The son of Frederick and Mary Harrison. He was Baptised on the 18th November 1900, in the Parish of Little Wymondley, Herts. The 1901 Census shows Alfred aged 5 months living with his Parents, 2 Brothers and Sister Emily at Little Almshoe, St Ippolyts, Herts. The 1911 Census shows Alfred aged 10 at school and living with his Parents, 4 Brothers and Sister Clara at 1 Top Row, Ashbrook, St Ippolyts, Herts. He was one of seven children.
Wartime Service
Alfred enlisted into the Royal Navy on the 22nd October 1918, at HMS Pembroke, a Shore Base at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. With the service number SS/9894. His Service Record Reads: First Served: 22nd October 1918. First Ship: HMS Pembroke. Last Served: 2nd November 1918. Last Ship: HMS Pembroke. He died in the Royal Naval Hospital in Chatham, of Influenza and Broncho Pneumonia on the 2nd November 1918, just 12 days after joining the service. He was buried in St Ippolyts Churchyard, on the 8th November 1918.
Additional Information
Alfred was a neighbour of John Gray who was killed in Action on the 2nd October 1916, while serving with the 6th Battalion, Princes Charlotte of Wale’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment).
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
