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 moved back to Albury, where she married Walter Petchey in 1899. In 1901 Alexander was living in Albury with his mother and stepfather. This is also the case in 1911, when he was a farm labourer.
He married Rose Helen Oliver in West Ham in early 1916. She was a housemaid to a Doctor. Sadly their marriage was only a few months old when he was killed.
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 in Action, and in others that he died of wounds. He must have had home leave in 1916 when he got married.
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
