Name
Alfred Kitchener
20 March 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/6438
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 41.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial, Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Alfred Kitchener was born in Bishop's Stortford on 20 March 1892 to Alfred and Charlotte Kitchener and educated at the National School there.
On the 1901 Census he was living with his family at Middle Row, Bishop's Stortford. His family remained in Middle Row on the 1911 Census, however Alfred was not living with them.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 10 January 1911 and served with the Special Reserve but was called up on the outbreak of war on 8 August 1914 and went to France on 1 November. He was wounded at the Battle of Neuve Chappelle but returned to the firing line on 3 April from Rouen Hospital.
He was reported wounded and missing after the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915 and assumed to have been killed in action on that date.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £4 and pay owing of £9 5s 11d. N.B. On some records Kitchener is spelled Kitchiner.
Alfred is also commemorated on the family plot in Bishop's Stortford Old Cemetery, his inscription reads:
"ALSO PTE. A. KITCHENER, SON OF THE ABOVE. KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF LOOS 1915.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
