BORN HULL 1895. SON OF HENRY GEORGE MEAD (1861-1939) & CHRISTINE MEAD, OF 10 BEECH GROVE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL. SON OF A STONE AND SAND MERCHANT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. HIS ELDER BROTHERS, HENRY & WILLIAM ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 20/04/1915. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS, AS A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 14/09/1918, AGED 23.
HIS NAME IS RECORED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL.
HE IS BURIED AT GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HE GIVETH HIS BELOVED REST”.
First name:
ALFRED ERNEST
Military Number:
771609
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
14/09/1918
Place died:
GLAGEON COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE
Age:
23
10 BEECH GROVE, GARDEN VILLAGE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
