Alfred Edward Williams

Service no. 9582

Private, York and Lancaster Regiment, 1st Battalion

Killed in action on 23 April 1915, aged about 25

Born in Pimlico; enlisted in London

Remembered at New Irish Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

British Army Service History

Notes

5 feet 4 3/8 inches tall

120 pounds

Chest 34 inches plus 2 half inches

Dark complexion

Brown hair and eyes

Scar on right forearm and back of head

Joined June 1909 in London - Berkshires

Transferred from Berkshires to regular army

"Good" military character

"A steady, reliable and hard-working man" 26 September 1914