Second Lieutenant Alfred Herbert Alexander

The St Helens Reporter
Courtesy Ste M
Regiment/Unit: Hampshire Regiment - 6th Bn. attd. 2nd Bn
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 22
Date of death: 3rd of December 1917
(Monday)
Born: Worthing, Sussex
Resided: 109 North Road, St Helens
Burial / Memorial: Cambrai Memorial Louverval - Panel 7.
Census details:
1901 - 6 years old Alfred Herbert is living at 75 Radford Road, Leamington with parents Herbert R (a Clergyman/Priest 34), Alice C (43) and siblings Oswald E R (3), Edmund M W (1).
Also at the address are 'lady friend' Kate White (28) and servant Alice M Edwards (18).
1911 - Sees 16 years old 'Student' Alfred H staying at St John's Foundation School For The Sons Of Poor Clergy Of The Church Of England, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
Notes:
MIC shows no medals - second MIC not found.
Age taken from census.
Taken prisoner 30 Nov 1917 Moeuvre. Date of birth 26 Nov 1895, address 109 North Road, St Helens
[pic]gallery_shroh/AlexanderAH_KLR_missing.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/AlfredHerbertAlexander_a.jpg[/pic][caption]National Probate Calendar[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/AlfredHerbertAlexander_b.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/AlexanderAH_Hamps.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Cambrai Memorial, Louverval bearing the inscription for
Second Lieutenant Alfred Herbert Alexander
(Photograph Courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
SHROH ref. 3497