Name
Alfred Newman
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
S/6524
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 D and 6 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Additional Plaque
Pre War
Alfred Newman was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1897 the son of [Alexander] William and Clara Newman and one of nine children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Middle Row, Bishops Stortford where his father was working as a local board labourer. They had moved to 46 Bartholomew Road, Bishops Stortford in 1911 at which time Alfred was working as an errand boy for a corn and seed store.
Alfred was living in London when he enlisted in Brixton. (His mother was living at 23 Patmos, Vassall Road, Brixton, SW London on pension records.)
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Brixton, London and joined the Royal West Surrey Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion in France from 8 November 1914.
Alfred was killed in action on 12 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £8 14s 4d and pay owing of £1 15s 8d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
On pension records she was living at 23 Patmos Road, Brixton, Surrey and was later recorded on the 1921 Census living at the same address with Alfred's siblings, Ernest, Bert and Emma and her husband and family.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
