Name
Alfred George Mawditt
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/07/1916
18
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/11933
Rifle Brigade
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FAUBOURG D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS
I. E. 38.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN GOD'S GREAT UNIVERSE THOU ART
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Wall Memorial, Potten End, Not on the Berkhamsted memorials, Not on the Northchurch memorials
Pre War
Alfred George Mawditt was born at Potten End, Northchurch, in 1897, the only son of John and Georgina Mawditt.
On the 1901 Census, the family were living at the Red Lion, Potten End, where his father was the Licensed Victualler. His father died in 1911, just before the Census, and his mother had taken over the running of the Red Lion and was listed as the Licensed Victualler, with Alfred, aged 13, working as a Stable Lad (Domestic).
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Basingstoke on 2 September 1914 initially into the 7th Reserve Cavalry Regiment (Reg. No. 7232), later transferring into the 8th Battalion, Rifle Brigade on 3 June 1915 and served in France from 30 June 1915.
He received a gunshot wound to the forehead on 29 July 1915 which resulted in a frontal bow fracture (severe). He was sent initially to a hospital ship, then back to England on the SS Brighton on 7 August 1915. Having recovered, he embarked from England on 29 December 1915, and joined the battalion in the field the following day.
He suffered from scabies on two occasions in March and May 1916 and was hospitalised in Rouen and Etaples, rejoining his battalion on 26 May 1916.
He was killed in action by a shell in the trenches at Arras on 11 July 1916 and is buried at Faubourg D'Amiens Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His mother, Mrs G Mawditt, Potten End, Great Berkhamsted, Herts, ordered his headstone inscription: “IN GOD'S GREAT UNIVERSE THOU ART”, His mother received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £5 19s 2d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk,
