Name
Alfred Shambrook
26/09/1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/01/1919
45
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3/8364
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHESHUNT BURIAL GROUND
13 CF
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Goffs Oak Memorial, Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin memorial Cheshunt
Pre War
Alfred Shambrook was born on 26th September 1884
in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, son of Anthony Shambrook a Market Garden Labourer
and Susan Shambrook (nee South). The eldest of five children.
Baptized on 30th November 1884, at St James
Church, Goffs Oak, Herts. At the time the family lived in St James Road, Goffs
Oak, Herts.
1891 Census records Alfred aged 6, living with his parents,
brother John (3) and sister Daisy (1) in St James Road, Goffs Oak, Herts.
No 1901 Census record for Alfred was found.
On 7th April 1902, aged 18, Alfred enlisted for
six years with the Colour in the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Militia and issued the service number 4349.
His service record stated he completed 49 days drill then enlisted in the Corps
of Dragoon Guards on 14th July 1902, no other pre-war military
service history was found.
No 1911 Census record for Alfred was found.
Wartime Service
Alfred enlisted on 5th
September 1914, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number
8364. On completion of his training, he arrived in France on 12th
May 1915, seeing action on the Western Front. He was discharged on 2nd
June 1916, Medically unfit for war service, from the effect of being gassed. He
was issued the Silver War Badge No. 423187. Alfred died on 6th
January 1919, at The Edmonton Military Hospital from the effects of Gas. He was
buried on 10th January 1919, at The Cheshunt Burial Ground, Bury
Green Road, Cheshunt, Herts, aged 35.
Additional Information
His service record for the Bedfordshire Militi is available
on-line.
His Youngest brother Lance Corporal 3574 William Richard
Shambrook MM, of the Royal fusiliers was killed in action on 15th
September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. His other brother Private 19677
John Shambrook of the Royal West Kent Regiment died on 5th February
1918, of wounds received in action.
In June 1997 Broxbourne Borough Council received a suggestion from the Chairman of Goffs Oak Community Association to name roads to commemorate the men who lost their lives in the two world wars that are displayed on the Goffs Oak War Memorial. It was decided that these names should be used for the large development in Hammondstreet Road, this soldier has one of the surnames chosen: Shambrook Road - the reason for the names selected (as opposed to others) is not know.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
