Name
Alfred Ernest Austin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/04/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
23542
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
150th Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HAVERSKERQUE BRITISH CEMETERY
C.15
France
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston
Pre War
Born in 1890, son of Alfred and Catherine Austin of Hitchin Lane, Weston. Baptised in Holy Trinity Church, Weston on 5 October 1890. 1911 Census: Working on a farm as a waggoner in Bracken Hill, Sherriff Hutton, Yorks.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in January 1915 in Duffield, Yorkshire and gave his residence as Middleton on the Wold. Went to France the following July. Died of wounds following action at Estaires near Lille, France.
Additional Information
Initially enlisted in Yorkshire Regiment, No. 2773. Alfred Ernest was Alfred and Catherine's second son lost in the war, his brother Ronald Frederick having died on 17 June 1915. A third son, Lance Corporal Major Austin was with a Trench Mortar Battalion in France.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
