Name
Alfred Cutler
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/10/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
41248
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. I. 63
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Not on the Oxhey memorials
Pre War
Alfred Cutler was born in 1882 in Hemel Hempstead, the son of Alfred and Emma Cutler, one of six children, and baptised on 13 December 1882 at St Mary's Church, Apsley End, Hemel Hempstead.
His father died in 1898 and on the 1901 Census he was living with his widowed mother and five siblings at 6 Winifred Road, Hemel Hempstead and he was working as a cutting machinist.
His mother and sisters Alice and Emma were living at 86 Weymouth Street, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead on the 1911 Census but he was not with them.
He married Lizzie (Elizabeth) Tavener in 1911 in Luton, Beds and was living in Oxhey, near Watford on enlistment.
His widow remarried to Arthur Shone in Luton in 1926.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and initially served with the Suffolk Regiment, reg. no. 31485, later transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment.
He died of accidental injuries on 17 October 1917 and is buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £4 7s.
Sometimes to surname is mistranscribed in records as Curler, Cutter, Cusler.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, ourwatfordhistory.org.uk, hemelatwar.org.
