Name
Alfred John (Jack) Huggins
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/08/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
19092
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3
I. D. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of John and Margaret (nee FIELD) HUGGINS of Iver Heath, Bucks; husband of Charlotte/Lottie (nee BURNELL) HUGGINS.
His parents married 1891 in the Eton, Bucks, district. John died 1944 in the Eton district aged 81; Margaret possibly died 1950 in the West Ham, Essex, district aged 86.
Alfred was born 4 April 1892 in Iver Heath, and baptised 12 June 1892 at St Margaret’s, Iver Heath. On 24 April 1912 Alfred was appointed Police Constable 159 in the Buckinghamshire Constabulary. After initial training in Aylesbury, he was posted to Bletchley on 28 August 1912; but was released from the Constabulary under the provisions of the Police (Emergency Provisions) Act 1915. He married 30 December 1916 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts, and resided in Watford. Lottie never remarried, and died 12 March 1959 in Ryde, Isle of Wight, aged 77.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Iver Heath, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a gardener aged 19, he still lived in Iver Heath, with his parents and five siblings.
Recorded as born in Iver Heath, Bucks and was living in Watford when he enlisted in Bletchley, Bucks.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bletchley, Bucks; was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Alfred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing. There is an article about Alfred in the Uxbridge and West Drayton Gazette dated 14 September 1917.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
