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ALFRED WILMER CHADWICK

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Rank
Engineman
Regiment
ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE RNR HMS ACTAEON
Military Number
439TS
Address
13 ALBERT TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL
Kingston upon Hull HU3 4JF
England
Background

Alfred Wilmar Chadwick

BORN HULL, ON CHRISTMAS DAY, 25/12/1895. ONLY SON OF JANE WILKINSON (1863- 1935) & ALFRED CHADWICK (1867-1910) OF 13, ALBERT TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). NEPHEW OF MR CHADWICK AT 80 SEATON STREET, HULL. COUSIN OF PRIVATE, SYDNEY CHADWICK, MGC, KILLED ON 14/07/1918. HE WAS BROTHER TO ELSIE MAY CHADWICK (1897-1928)

A FORMER ERRAND LAD. ALBERT WAS INVOLVED IN A TRAIN DERAILMENT AT NEWARK IN 1915. AND WAS AWARDED A SILVER WATCH BY THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY, FOR RESCUING THE PASSENGERS. HE IS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 2ND NOVEMBER 1915. *

HE SERVED AS AN ENGINEMAN IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. HE DIED OF PNEUMONIA AND FLU, ON THE 1ST AUGUST 1918, AGED 22.

HE IS BURIED AT HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HE LEFT HIS FIANCEE ESTHER TO MOURN HIS LOSS.

Date Died
01/08/1918
Died
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age
22
Memorial
Chanterlands Avenue
Kingston upon Hull HU5 4AY
England

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