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The Roll lists his address as St John's Street. It also records the death of his brother Ernest.
(CWGC records that Acting Bombardier Alfred Remnant M.M., regimental number 891218, died aged 20 on 12/12/1917 serving in B Battery, 270th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave AA.62 at Ramleh War Cemetery in Israel and Palestine. They record him as the son of Mrs S Clements of Vineyard Cottage, St Mary's Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Barnwell who enlisted in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at 1/3rd East Anglian Field Ambulance and that his mother Mrs Sarah A Clements was his legatee. Alfred was born in Barnwell in 1897. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents Alfred and Sarah Ann Remnant at Mill End in Warmington. His father died in 1908. On the 1911 census Alfred was living with his widowed mother at 71 Princes Street in Peterborough. His mother married Charles Clements in 1912. The Medal Rolls record that Alfred initially served in the Royal Field Artillery (Territorials) under regimental number 4314, which later changed to 891218, and that he was sent to France on 19/11/1915. He was later posted to Palestine, where he died on 12/12/1917. His posthumous Military Medal was announced on 12/1/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser. Alfred is commemorated on the Northamptonshire Battery Royal Field Artillery's War Memorial that hangs in Peterborough Town Hall- see War Memorials Register ref 8470. He is also commemorated on the headstone of his brother Ernest Remnant in Broadway Cemetery in Peterborough- see War Memorials Register reference 70079).