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Pte. Alfred Darrington

British Army 2/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment

from:Roxton, Bedfordshire

(d.22nd Nov 1917)

Alfred Darrington by kind permission of Roger Bygraves.

Alfred Darrington was born in Roxton, Bedfordshire to George and Hannah Darrington on 8 March 1897. He started at Roxton School on 23rd April 1900 and gained his Exemption Certificate on 18 October 1910. In the 1911 census he is working as a farm labourer and on 29th March 1912 he left Liverpool on the Virginian with his brothers George and Peter for Canada. They all returned on 31st October 1913 on hearing that land had been obtained by the Small Holding Society.

Alfred volunteered on 11th of September 1914 into the 2nd Bedfordshire Regiment and was promoted to Lance Corporal. He was sent out to France in 1915 and whilst overseas transferred to the 2/5th Gloucestershire Regiment.

He died on the 22nd of November 1917 in France and is remembered on the Arras Memorial in France, and on Roxton War Memorial in School Lane, Roxton, Bedfordshire.

Roxton War Memorial



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