Name
Alfred John Lovegrove
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/11/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6840
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS
I. G. 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
"SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS"
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial Waltham Cross
Pre War
Alfred John Lovegrove was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, in 1894, son of Willliam James Lovegrove an employee at the Royal Gun Powder Factory, at Waltham Abbey and Eliza Lovegrove (nee Macer). The Youngest of ten children although one died in Infancy.
Alfred attended St. Mays Infant School and Dewhurst Endowed Boys School, Cheshunt.
1901 Census records Alfred (as John) aged 7, living with his three brothers and four sisters at, 1 Wilberforce Terrace, Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Herts. His mother Eliza died in 1903, aged 49.
1911 Census, Alfred (17) still recorded as John, is living with his widowed father, brother Sidney (16) at 10 Windmill Lane, Cheshunt Herts. His married sister Alice her husband Bertie Coe and their two children Bertie Frederick and Leonard are living with them. His father William died in 1915, aged 67.
Wartime Service
Alfred travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 4/6840. On completion of his training Alfred arrived on the Western Front on 11th November 1914.
He was Killed in Action on the 10th November 1916, aged 22. He is buried in the CWGC Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, France.
Additional Information
His effects of £13-4-00, pay owing and his war gratuity of £10, went to his sister Mrs Alice Mary Coe.
His Headstone inscription: “SAFE IN THE ARMES OF JESUS” was requested by his sister Alice Mary Coe of 10 Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Herts.
The Census records refer to him as John and not Alfred.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
