BORN HULL 1891. SON OF CLARA REED, AT 8 NELSON SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL. SHE LOST HER ONLY TWO SONS IN THE WAR. EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, LEE SMITHS, OIL MILLS, WINCOLMLEE. ENLISTED IN HULL, IN APRIL 1915. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF HEAD WOUNDS ON 30/07/1917, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 17/08/1917. *
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917)
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE DANSOM LANE MEMORIAL & THE NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONNOUR, WITH HIS BROTHER PTE. GEORGE ERNEST REED, 13TH EYR, WHO WAS KILLED THE SAME DAY, AGED 24. THEIR DEATHS ARE REPORTED IN THE HDM 03/11/1917.
First name:
ALFRED
Military Number:
15626
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
30/07/1917
Place died:
Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
26
8 NELSON SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
