Basic Details
Surname
Watmough
Forenames
Alfred
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
T/325133
Notes
The All About Thornton website (see References) states: 'Alfred Watmough, son of Walter and Emily Watmough of 50 Market Street. The 1911 census shows an Alfred Watmough at 2 Cliffe Street, aged 12, a Spinning Frame Doffer in a Worsted Mill, part-time scholar. He was deemed to have enlisted on 2 March 1916, when he was living at 1 Dole Street and employed as a Leather worker. He was called up on 9 April 1917, in the Royal Army Service Corps. Driver, RASC, #T/325133. He was discharged on 15 November 1917, being no longer fit for war service, due to palpitations of the chest on exertion, having had a history of pneumonia and double pneumonia, and other ailments including anaemia. He died in Thornton in January 1920, aged 21. Also remembered on Kipping Roll of Honour and War Memorial.'
Primary Service
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Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
England
Town of death
Thornton, Bradford
Year of death
1920
Month of death
January
Age at death
21
Manner of death as stated
Unknown
Manner of death reference
Died of Disease