Name
Alfred George Creed
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266446
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HARINGHE (BANDAGHEM) MILITARY CEMETERY
Plot V, Row B, Grave 29.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Walter and Mary Jane (nee LOVELACE) CREED.
His parents married 1894 in the Chelsea, London, district. Mary died 1955 in Watford aged 92, and was buried 11 June in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Walter died 1959 in Abbot’s Langley, Herts, aged 92, and was buried 21 January, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Alfred was born 22 January 1897 in the Bromley, Kent, district. He attended Victoria Junior School, Watford; then Beechen Grove Board School, Watford, from 12 February 1906 to 20 January 1911. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Willesden, Middx, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, an errand boy aged 14, he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford, and was formerly Private 4626 Hertfordshire Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 17 August 1915, and died at 36 Casualty Clearing Station of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
There is an In Memoriam for Alfred in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 26 April 1919.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Unfortunately, Alfred’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
