Name
Alfred Ernest Thear
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/03/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2040
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
1st/3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 44.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Separate plaque in St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Pre War
Born on 27 Dec 1885 and baptised on 28 Feb 1886 in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire son of Reuben and Alice Thear and was living in High Street, Hoddesdon in 1901 and in 1 Rose Vale, Hoddesdon in 1911 as a railway clerk.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Edward Street, London, entered France on 6 Jan 1915 and was killed in action Neuve Chapelle.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Phil Holland
