Name
Alfred Burnham
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/08/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
1119
Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HELLES MEMORIAL
Panel 17.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tring memorials, Aston Clinton, Bucks.
Pre War
Alfred Burnham was born in 1893 in Aston Clinton to William G Burnham, coal merchant, and Martha (nee Green).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Percy (born 1880) and Miriam (born 1884) were living at Weston Road, Aston Clinton, Bucks.
On the 1901Census the family of parents, Percy (coal carter), Miriam (shop assistant), and Alfred were living at Weston Road, Aston Clinton.
Alfred’s father died in 1910.
On the 1911 Census Alfred was living at Weston Road , Aston Clinton with his widowed mother, Miriam and Bessie Green (companion, sister of his mother).
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for Alfred, who enlisted in Aug 1914 in the Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars) as a Territorial Soldier Private 1119 as part of 2nd South Midland Brigade in the Mounted Division.
In Sep 1915 the Bucks Hussars were transferred to 2nd Mounted Division and went to Egypt on 21 Apr 1915. They were sent to Gallipoli as Dismounted troops landing at Suvla Bay on the night of 17/18 Aug 1915 and participated in the Battle of Scimitar Hill and the attack on ‘W’ Hill on 21 Aug 1915. Alfred was killed in one of these actions on 21 Aug 1915, his remains not recovered and is remembered on the Helles Memorial, Gallipoli.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £3 15s 5d was paid to his mother who also received a pension of 5s/week.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
