Name
Wilfred Algernon Burfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/02/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Engine Room Artificer 4th Class
M/18517
Royal Navy
H.M.S. “Vivid”
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PLYMOUTH (FORD PARK) CEMETERY
Church S. 3. 13.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 20 Aug 1894 son of Frederick George and Ethel Sophia Burfield (later Mrs Cockburn) of 164 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells. Educated at the Royal Masonic School 1903-10, he was an apprentice in the Locomotive Works of the Great Central Railway for 5 years.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in the Royal Navy on 8 Jan 1916 and served on HMS Vivid. He died of “spotted fever” shortly afterwards.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association
