Name
Alexander Breeze
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
12090
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, OVILLERS-LA BOISSELLE
III. J. 19.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
The Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial, Albury
Pre War
Alexander Breeze was born in Sheffield in 1891. In the census of that year he was recorded as two months old, and his father was Robert Breeze, a Blacksmith and his mother, Mary Ann, recorded as born in Albury. His father died in 1896, and his mother mo
Wartime Service
Alexander enlisted at Hertford, joining the 6th Bn. Bedfordshire Regt. Since he has all three WW1 medals, he probably was a volunteer, perhaps a Territorial, and is said to have arrived in France in July 1915. In some records he is given as Killed m Act
Additional Information
After his death he was recorded as the son of Mary Ann Breeze, of Albury, Much Hadham, Herts; husband of Rose Ellen Lee (formerly Breeze), of 55, Cedars Rd., Stratford. London.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
