Name
Alfred John Whyman
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/26416
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BARKWAY (ST. MARY MAGDALENE) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
OUR LOSS, HIS ETERNAL GAIN
UK & Other Memorials
Nuthampstead Plaque, St Mary Magdalene Church, Barkway, Not on the Barkway memorial(*1), Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
Alfred John Whyman (sometimes called John) was born in 1892 in Nuthampstead, Herts, the son of Amos and Ann Whyman (nee Camp) and one of seven children.
His mother died in 1896 and on the 1901 Census John was living with his widowed father and siblings Eliza and Walter in Nuthampstead, where his father was working as a agricultural labourer. They remained in Nuthampstead in 1911 at which time they were living at Bell Lane and both John and his father were working as farm labourers.
He was said to be living in Cheshunt, Herts at the time of enlistment.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and joined the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment, serving with the 4th Battalion.
John died of wounds at the 1st London General Hospital, Camberwell, on 15 November 1918, aged 27, and is buried in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalene, Barkway, Herts.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £12 and pay owing of £10 1s 10d. His sister, Miss Ada A Whyman, was named as dependant but did not receive a pension, however, she was awarded a gratuity of £30 6s 8d.
Brother James Ernest Whyman enlisted in August 1914 to serve with the Royal Army Medical Corps but was discharged as not likely to become an efficient soldier on medical grounds. He was born in Nuthampstead in 1893 and had been living with his uncle and aunt John and Elizabeth Hale in Walthamstow on both the 1901 and 1911 Censuses.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
