Name
Alfred Worbey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
35468
Essex Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 98-99
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial,
St Mary's Church Roll of Honour (Book), Hitchin
Pre War
Son of Alfred and Emma Worbey, of 19, St. Andrews Place, Hitchin; husband of Mrs. C. M. Worbey, of 67, Sunnyside Rd., Highbury, Hitchin. Alfred was born in and resided in Hitchin and had a greengrocer's business there.
He enlisted in Hitchin in June 1916.
Wartime Service
Initially Alfred was sent to the Suffolk Regiment with the Number 32409. He went to France in January 1917. He was later posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Essex Regiment and given Regimental Number 35468. This Battalion was part of the 12th Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps in the 5th Army in the Battle of Polygon Wood.
He was killed in action probably in the area between Langemarck and Poelcappelle.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Panel 98 to 99of the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
