Name
Alfred William Newconbe
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/06/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33465
Bedfordshire Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PHILOSOPHE BRITISH CEMETERY, MAZINGARBE
I. S. 16.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Betsy (nee EADE) NEWCOMBE.
Alfred EADE was born 14 September 1893 in Marylebone, London, and baptised 21 September 1893 at St Mark’s, Marylebone Road. He resided in Watford.
His mother married WIlliam NEWCOMBE 25 December 1893 at All Saints, South Lambeth, London. William died 30 May 1931 in South Lambeth aged 62; Betsy died 1956 in the Exeter, Devon, district aged 89.
On the 1901 Census, aged 7 he lived in South Lambeth, with his mother, step-father and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a grocer’s assistant aged 17, he still lived in South Lambeth, with his mother, step-father and one sibling.
Officially recorded as born in Marylebone, Middx. and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Alfred’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)
