Name
Alfred Henry Randall
21 Jun 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/02/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sergeant.
E/451
Royal Fusiliers *1
17th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COURCELETTE BRITISH CEMETERY
I. E. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Harpenden Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Harpenden
Pre War
Alfred Henry was born in Hornsey, Middx on 21 Jun 1894 to Alfred Randall, a silversmith’s assistant, and Amy (nee Child).
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Effingham Road, Hornsey. In 1911 Alfred was living with his widowed mother and his brother Arthur Charles at 16 Drayton Green, Ealing. Alfred was working as a shop assistant with Carringtons, jewellers of Regent Street London.
Wartime Service
Alfred enlisted in Sep 1914 in the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) as Private E/451 in the 17th ( Empire) Battalion. The letter e prefix indicate the Empire Battalion.
The Battalion, including Alfred who at some time was promoted to Sergeant, landed in France on 17 Nov 1915.
He fought in Battles of the Somme and was killed on 5 Feb 1917 when the Battalion were moving into trenches on the Front Line.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Mary Skinner, Harpenden & District Local History Society (www.harpenden-history.org.uk)
