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
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
