Name
Alfred Ashwell
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
King's Royal Rifle Corps
1st Bn. attd. 10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GOUZEAUCOURT NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
VI. F. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial,
Methodist Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford,
Diocese - Book of Remembrance, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans,
Diocese of St Albans - ROH, St Albans Cathedral, St Albans
Pre War
Alfred Ashwell was born in 1894 in Bishop's Stortford to Jeffery and Julia Ashwell.
On the 1911 Census he was a schoolboy living with his family at 4 Half Acres, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He
enlisted and served from 30 July 1915 in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps under Reg
No. R/9115 and TR 13/8435, eventually being promoted to 2nd Lt.
Additional Information
Probate was granted to his father Jeffery Ashwell, retired farmer, on 6 April 1918 with effects of £333 7s 1d. His father received a war gratuity of £10 10s and pay owing of £30 5s 7d.
Brother to Jeffery Ashwell also named on the Methodist Church Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
