Name
Alfred Punchard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Major
The Prince of Wales (North Staffordshire Regiment)
2nd Bn., attached 7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Mentioned in Despatches
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 34.
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 22 Jan 1886 in Luton, Bedfordshire son Rev. Canon Elgood George Punchard D.D. and Catherine Mary (Johnson) Punchard later of St. Mary's Street, Ely, Cambs. Educated at Haileybury College 1899-04 and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant 7 Nov 1906 and joined the battalion in Multan, Pakistan on 15 Jan 1907. Promoted Lieutenant on 1 Apr 1909. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Adjutant 1 Jan 1915 and Captain on 24 Mar 1915. He was slightly wounded on 5 Sep 1915 in the North-West Frontier of India but returned to service. He volunteered for service in Mesopotamia in Oct 1916 and was killed in action on the Mael Plain, north of Bagdad.
Additional Information
Brother of Lieutenant Edmund Elgood Punchard who was killed in action on 31 Oct 1914 and is also commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
