Name
Alfred D Mabbitt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/03/1915
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7114
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary's Church Memorial, Baldock, St Faith’s Church Memorial, Walsworth
Pre War
Son of Herbert and Ruth Mabbitt, later of II, Jackson St., Baldock, Herts. He was born at Baldock, resided there and enlisted in London.
In 1891 census he was living in Bygrave with his parents Herbert and Ellen Mabbitt although on CWG his parents are shown as Herbert and Ruth living at 11 Jackson Street, Baldock.
In 1901 census he was boarding and shown as a Horse Keeper (Groom) at 70 Southampton Road, St. Pancras.
Wartime Service
He was given Regimental Number 7114 and posted to the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment which was part of the 25th Brigade in the 8th Division of IV Corps of the 1st Army. He was killed in action in France or Flanders.
The day of his death coincides with the 8th Division being in Neuve Chapelle towards the end of the battle for the village. The Germans had recaptured it on the 14th March 1915 and the British drove them out again on the 15th March 1915. As usual the casualties were heavy. The 2nd Battalion of the Royal Berkshires were in support positions on the eastern edge of Neuve Chapelle on the 12'h March but in the fighting of the 10th to 15th March they lost 328 killed, wounded and missing.
On the 15th the Battalion remained in trenches but sustained two killed and ten wounded. He has no known grave but is remembered on Panel 30 of Le Touret Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Cilla Dyson David C Baines, 2nd Royal Berkshire Regiment War Diary, Popular History of the Great War by J.A. Hammerton.
