Individual Details

Fredrick ALFORD

(1894 - 1 Oct 1917)

Vic Birth Registration Number: 28435

Commonwealth War Graves Commission:
Name: ALFORD, FREDERICK
Initials: F
Nationality: Australian
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Unit Text: 46th Bn.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 01/10/1917
Service No: 2611
Additional information: Son of Henry and Eliza Alford, of Inverleigh, Victoria. Native of Cressy, Victoria.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31.
Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL - http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=91800&mode=1

Ypres (now Ieper) is a town in the Province of West Flanders. The Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town on the road to Menin (Menen) and Courtrai (Kortrijk). Each night at 8 pm the traffic is stopped at the Menin Gate while members of the local Fire Brigade sound the Last Post in the roadway under the Memorial's arches.

Events

Birth1894Cressy, Victoria, Australia
Death1 Oct 1917War - Ypres (now Ieper), West Flanders, Belgium

Families

FatherHenry ELFORD (1848 - 1938)
MotherElizabeth Maud "Eliza" NORFIELD (1857 - 1940)
SiblingWilliam Henry ALFORD (1875 - 1943)
SiblingJames ALFORD (1878 - 1943)
SiblingHenry J "Harry" ALFORD (1881 - 1957)
SiblingMary Jane ALFORD (1883 - 1958)
SiblingHarriet Elizabeth ALFORD (1886 - 1972)
SiblingJohn ALFORD (1888 - 1970)
SiblingZella ALFORD (1890 - 1967)
SiblingIsaac ALFORD (1897 - 1935)