Name
Alfred James Desborough
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/10/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
58288
Northamptonshire Regiment
D Coy. 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, FONTAINE-AU-BOIS
II. I. 24.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials
Wartime Service
A Hertfordshire Express article of the 23rd of November 1918 reports:
"Mr. and Mrs. W. Desborough, of Edworth, have received the sad news that their son, Private Alfred G. Desborough, Northants. Regiment, was shot through the head on October 30m his 21st birthday, by a German machine gun.
Private Desborough was very popular among the people of Edworth and Hinxworth, and was a member of the Wesleyan Church. He has served on the Western Front only six weeks."
Additional Information
Listed as Alfred James Desborough but referred to as Alfred G. Desborough in the Hertfordshire Express
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Jonty Wild
