Name
Alfred Joseph Baldry
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/09/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
4791
London Regiment *1
21st (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
III. A. 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Cuthberts Church, Rye Park
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Stoke Newington, London son of William Charles and Carolina (Richardson) Baldry and living with his grandparents in Rye Park, Hoddesdon in 1911 as a plumber. In 1915 he was an engineer’s fitter’s mate and living in 8 Tennyson Road, Walthamstow.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 28 Jan 1916 at Stratford, London, entered France on 7 Aug 1916 and was wounded by a gun shot wound to the abdomen on 15 Sep 1916 at the Somme. He died of his wounds probably in a casualty clearing station in Dernancourt.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (First Surrey Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
