Name
Alfred Monk
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/09/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/75967
Royal Fusiliers *1
2nd (City of London) Bn. Posted 2/2nd London
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
R. II. O. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin, British Schools Museum Memorial, Hitchin
Pre War
Born and resided in Hitchin, his home was at 52, Queen St. Hitchin where he lived with his mother and he was the youngest of eight brothers, five of whom were serving in the armed forces.
Before the war he was employed by the Electric Light Company of Whinbush Road, Hitchin and later at a munitions factory in Letchworth. He lived in Hitchin and enlisted when he was 15, but was soon discharged due to being under age. He was recalled when he was 18 and enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 11651, Royal West Surrey Regiment.
He was sent to France in May 1918. Later he was posted to the 2/2nd Battalion of the London Regiment and given Number 75967. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission he was Regimental Number G/75967 in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.
He was wounded in the knee and thigh by a shell and died in No. 12 General Hospital, Rouen, France, then he was buried in Plot R11, Row O, Grave 4 in the St. Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen in France.
Additional Information
He was the youngest of eight brothers, five of whom were serving in the armed forces.
*1 Probably more
correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
