Name
Alfred Herbert Frost
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/05/1919
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
91032
Royal Fusiliers
43rd Garrison Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot LXXII, Row F, Grave 12.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
Son of Emily (nee DYER) FROST of Oxhey, Herts, and the late Alfred Joseph FROST.
His parents married 5 August 1895 at Sts Peter and Paul, Wadhurst, Sussex. Alfred died 1918 in Oxhey aged 52, and was buried 19 February at St James’, Bushey, Herts; Emily died 20 November 1956 in Oxhey aged 84, and was buried 23 November, also at St James’.
Alfred was born 1899 in Oxhey.
On the 1901 Census, aged 1 he lived in Bushey, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, aged 11 he lived in Oxhey, with his parents and two siblings.
Wartime Service
He was formerly Private 51680 Bedfordshire Regiment, and 41176 Northamptonshire Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of pneumonia.
Additional Information
His headstone inscription reads: “UNTIL THE DAY BREAK".
Recorded as FROST F H in the Borough Roll of Honour.
Unfortunately, Alfred’s Service record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing; he also does not appear to listed in the Soldiers Died in the Great War dataset.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
