Name
Alfred Rodie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/08/1918
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Sergeant
16393
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 4 and 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints Church Memorial, Little Munden,
Not on the Standon memorials
Pre War
Alfred was born and baptised in Standon, Herts. in 1895 to Robert Leslie and Emily Caroline Rodie. Although living in Standon in 1891 (his father was a general labourer- came from Scotland).
By 1901 they lived in Church End, Great Munden in 1901 and Haultwick, Little Munden in 1911 where his father was a beer retailer and Alfred is described as a worker.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford into the Bedfordshire Regt as a volunteer (probably September 1914 from his service number), and landed in France in August 1915.
He attained the rank of Lance Sergeant and was killed at the second battle of Bapaume.
Additional Information
Alfred is also commemorated on his family’s grave in Little Munden (All Saints) Churchyard. His part of the inscription reads:
ALSO SERJT. ALFRED ROADIE DEARLY LOVED SON KILLED IN ACTION AUGUST 22ND 1918. AGE 23 YEARS.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Pat Bird
