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Pte. Alfred Henry "Critch" Critchley
British Army 9th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Gloucester
My grandfather Alfred Critchley was born in 1898, he enlisted after his 16th birthday in September 1914. He joined 9th Battalion, Gloucesters.
Before the War Act of 1916 young men could enlist at 16, the Act made it that you had to be 18 to enlist.
My grandfather died in 1976 peacefully at home in Gloucester. He worked after the war at Feilding and Platts Engineering Company in Gloucester city, retiring at 65 years old.