Forenames:
Alfred John
Family Name:
Searle
Gender:
- Male
Date of Birth:
24th November 1889
Date of Death:
4th June 1918
Grave:
Birth Record:
Notes:
The second child of the five children of Alfred John and Ester Searle.
The 1891 census lists the family living on Cold Hill, Soberton. His father was working as an Agricultural Labourer. By the 1901 census his mother had died and his father had remarried to Ellen and had two further sons. His father was working as a Railway Worker.
19 September 1906 he joined the Royal Marine Light Infantry (Portsmouth Division)
Died of disease during WWI
Commemorated on the Soberton War Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves Commission entry Son of Alfred John and Ester Searle, of Cold Hill, Soberton