Name
Alfred Garment
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/05/1915
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7164
Northamptonshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 28 to 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Little Gaddesden Village Memorial, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour, Little Gaddesden, St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour (2018 Revision), Little Gaddesden, Berkhamsted War Memorial, High Wycombe Hospital War Memorial, Bucks, Not on the Potten End memorials
Pre War
Alfred Garment was born in Potten End, Herts in 1886, the son of Frederick and Elizabeth Garment.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Nettleden Lodge Gate (otherwise called Peacock Lodge), Nettleden, Herts, where his father was a Gamekeeper and Alfred, aged 14, was a gardener in the Nursery garden.
Alfred's service no. 7164 suggests that he joined the Northamptonshire Regiment in 1903/4. On completing his service he remained in the Army Reserve and joined the High Wycombe Borough Police force in 1913.
He married Priscilla Bannister in late summer 1913 in Northampton and they had a son Alfred Frank who was born on 27 November 1914, after Alfred had left for the Western Front.
On pension records his widow's address is given as 57 Cowper Street, Northampton.
Wartime Service
As a reserve soldier he was recalled at the outbreak of war and enlisted in London. The 1st Battalion, landed in Le Havre and served in France from 13 August 1914. The 1st Battalion were involved in the Battle of Mons, the Battle of the Marne, Battle of the Aisne, the 1st Battle of Ypres and the winter operations of 1914/15.
He was killed in action on 9 May 1915 during the Allied Spring Offensive and the Battle of Aubers Ridge. He has no known grave and is one 262 from the 1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment named on the Le Touret Memorial, France who are assumed to have died on that day.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £4 17s 4d. She also received a pension of 15 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
littlegaddesdenchurch,org.uk, dacorumheritage,org.uk, hemelatwar.org
