Name
Alfred Frederick Speller
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/10/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
28341
Border Regiment
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAMBURG CEMETERY
V. H. 3.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Albury memorials, New Malden Memorial
Pre War
Alfred Speller was born in Albury in 1883, son of Edward and Isabella Speller. In 1891 his father was a carpenter, living at Gravesend, Albury. In 1901 his father was recorder as a carpenter and undertaker, and Alfred, now shown as Frederick, was a brewery clerk.
In 1909 he married Kate Nora Palmer in Kingston registration area. Her address was given as 9 Dunbar Rd New Malden when he died. By 1911 he was living with his wife in New Malden and working as a gardener. They had three sons born in 1911, 1913 and 1915.
Wartime Service
Frederick enlisted at Kingston on Thames into the East Surrey Regt, but later transferred to the Border Regt. Nothing more known of his service, but he was a prisoner of war in Hamburg when he died.
Five British soldiers are shown to have died in 4 days and are in the Hamburg Cemetery, which perhaps suggests an epidemic of some sort. It is sad that it was so close to the end of the war.
Additional Information
Frederick enlisted at Kingston on Thames into the East Surrey Regt, but later transferred to the Border Regt. Nothing more known of his service, but he was a prisoner of war in Hamburg when he died.
Five British soldiers are shown to have died in 4 days and are in the Hamburg Cemetery, which perhaps suggests an epidemic of some sort. It is sad that it was so close to the end of the war.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
