Basic Details
Surname
Winstone
Forenames
Alfred E
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Notes
The Oxford History website (See References) offers this extra information: 'Alfred Edwin Winstone (1897–1917).
Born in Walthamstow, Essex on 1 November 1897 and baptised there on at the age of five on 16 March 1904. Son of Ernest Jones Winstone, corrector at press in Walthamstow and later Oxford, and Louisa Emily Fidler.
Arthur was working in the Secretary's Office of Oxford University Press when he enlisted in August 1916. He served with the Royal Flying Corps in England to February 1917, and was then sent to France.
Censuses: 1901: Alfred (3) was living at 30 Edinburgh Road, Walthamstow with his parents and two older siblings; 1911: Alfred (13) was still at school, and was living at 68 Southmoor Road, Oxford with his parents and older brother and sister; Air Mechanic Second Class, 6th Squadron, Royal Flying Corps and 18th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
Killed in action in Belgium on 20 October 1917, aged 19.
CWGC and on OCHHR
Buried at Voormezeele Enclosures Nos. 1 and 2, Belgium (I. G. 8)
Primary Service
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Belgium
Country of burial
Belgium
Town of burial
Voormezele
Cemetery
Enclosures 1 and 2
Year of death
1917
Month of death
October
Day of death
20
Age at death
19
Manner of death as stated
Unknown
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action