Name
Alfred Ian Rae
25/06/1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
24/04/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
2nd. Lieutenant.
Rifle Brigade
13th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 9.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the missing in France.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford, Bishop's Stortford Collage Memorial, Laurencekirk Cemetery, Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Pre War
Alfred Ian Rae was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 25th June 1896, son of Alfred Rae, a Farmer and Nursery Man and Martha Jane Rae (nee Carter). One of seven children.
1901 Census records Alfred Jr. aged 4, living with his parents, two sisters and two brothers at, Brook House, High Road, Turnford, Herts, the family had three Domestic Servants, Cook, Housemaid & Nurse.
Alfred Jr. attended Bishops Stortford Collage from 1908 to 1914.
1911 census records Alfred Jr. aged 14, a Scholar, at The College, Hadam Road, Bishops Stortford, Herts. His parents, sister Elizabeth (12), brothers Laurence (9) & David (7), are still living at, Brook House, Turnford, with two Domestic Servants. His mother Martha died in 1918, aged 50.
Wartime Service
Alfred Jr. enlisted, posted to the 19th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers(City of London Regiment) with the service number PS/8260. The Battalion landed in France on 14th November 1915, Alfred Jr. served on the Western Front until 16th May 1916, when he returned home for Officer training, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant to the 13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade on 25th September 1916, he arrived back in France on 15th December 1916.
He was Killed in Action in the area of Gavrelle, France, on 24th April 1917, he has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France, to the missing.
Additional Information
His effects of £50-07s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £6-10s-00d, went to his father Alfred Rae.
His father was originally from Scotland, and his mother from Batley, Yorkshire, both his parent are buried in Scotland, he is named on the family grave at Laurencekirk Cemetery, Laurencekirk, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. “ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS KILLED IN GAVRELLE, FRANCE, AGED 21 YEARS”.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
