Name
Alfred James Abel Dollemore
1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/2237
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Barnet memorials not yet fully researched(*1) Penge War Memorial.
Pre War
Alfred James Abel Dollemore was born in Barnet, Herts in 1894, son of Alfred Dollemore an Advertising Inspector (B 1871 in Hatfield) and Clara Dollemore (nee Chapman) (B 1870 in Thorne, Bucks).
1901 Census records Alfred aged 6, living with his parents, at 105 Stanstead Road, Lewisham, London. His father, born in Hatfield, worked as a news advertising inspector.
By 1911 now aged 16, Alfred had left school and was working as a Labourer, living at home with his parents and younger sister Avis 3, at 35 Jasmine Grove, Anerley, London, SE. Alfred was working as a warehouseman and his father still an advertising inspector.
Alfred was 20yrs 5mths old when he enlisted at Maidstone on 10/9/1914. His trade was a warehouseman, 5ft 6ins tall, weighed 131lbs, had brown eyes & black hair, He had good physical development. Father was confirmed as Alfred Dollemore, and his mother Clara and sister Avis.
Officially recorded as born in Barnet and was living in Anerlay when he enlisted in Maidstone.
Wartime Service
After enlistment, Arthur was posted to the Royal West Kent Regiment with the Service No. 2237.
He was on Home service between September 1914 and 26th July 1915. The Battalion left Codford by train for Southampton and embarked aboard the S.S. Mount Temple, Disembarking at Le Havre on the night of the 26th/27th July 1915.
Alfred was Killed in Action on 30th September 1916, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing.
Awarded the Victory Medal, British War Medal, and 1915 Star.
Additional Information
Among the service papers was a letter from an old friend.
50, Minerva St.
Hackney Rd
6.?.17
Gentlemen,
Will you kindly let me know any news concerning Private A. J. A. Dollemore No. G. 2237 with battalion R.W. Kent Reg. I have written to him and have had no answer each time.
Your attention to it will oblige an old friend of his.
From, G.P. Mc?
The value of his effects were £7-1s-7d, Pay Owing and £8-10s-0d, War Gratuity, which went to his father Alfred.
All personal property and medals were to be despatched to Mr. Alfred Dollemore, 35 Jasmine Grove, Anerly, S.E.
1 If known, the ‘Barnet’ memorial is given, however ‘Barnet’ now appears to be the generic name for many historically separate Hertfordshire locations with Barnet in their name. While we try to unravel these – any help gratefully received! – we have to record ‘Barnet’. It may be that a person appears on several historical ‘barnets’. As this work is done, we will add further detail.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Stuart Osborne, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
