CHENNERY, Alfred Charles


No.16408, Private, Alfred CHENNERY
Aged 19


38 Coy, Army Service Corps

Died of Illness on 6th April 1901


Definitely a case for searching with "sounds like" or "looks like". All possible versions of Chennery, Chinnery, Chenery etc are used in records.

Born in Bury St.Edmunds on 5th November 1880 (4th qtr 1880 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:579) son of Arthur Herbert and Emmeline CHENNERY (née CRICK). Baptised on 7th October 1881 in St Mary's, Bury St.Edmunds.

1881 census...Aged 5 months, he was at 6 The Butts, Bury St.Edmunds with his father, Arthur Herbert CHINNERY [24] plumber, born Bury St.Edmunds; : his mother Emmiline [27] born Chevington; sister Susannah E.[2] born Bury St.Edmunds

1891 census...Aged 10, he was at 25 The Butts, Bury St.Edmunds with his parents, sisters Susannah [12] and Daisy Louisa [4]; brother Arthur Herbert [6]. All the children were born in Bury St.Edmunds

1901 census...Not found in census, with Suffolk Regiment in South Africa. His parents (CHENERY) were back at No 6 The Butts, with brothers Arthur Herbert [16] a journeyman baker, George Thomas [11]; sisters Daisy Louisa [14] and Mary Ann [11] and nephew Arthur Herbert CHENERY [2] parentage not known but believed to be son of his sister Susannah


He was a baker when he enlisted in Bury St.Edmunds on 26th August 1900, giving his age as 18 years 5 months, a baker, born in Bury St.Edmunds. 5 feet 3.75 inches tall, weighing 123 lbs, chest 34" to 36", he had blue eyes, brown hair, Church of England. Next of kin, father Arthur Chenery of 6 The Butts, Bury St.Edmunds and he died at Naauport of enteric fever (typhoid) at No 10 Stationary Hospital, Naauwpoort (Noupoort), Colesberg District, Cape Province.

He has the South Africa 1901 clasp on his Queen's South Africa medal



Noupoort Garden of Remembrance


Copyright holder Shane Spargo, reproduced from Eggsa.org, reproduced under copyright "fair use".

Alfred Chennery is commemorated on the Bury St.Edmunds Cornhill Memorial and in Aldershot on the ASC tablets

Casualties of the Army Service Corps are commemorated on a memorial plaque within the Cathedral Church of St. Michael and St. George, Aldershot which commemorates the 377 men of the Army Service Corps who gave their lives in the South-African War (2nd Boer War). The memorial was first located within the Royal Garrison Church of St George's, Woolwich, but was removed to its present site following the destruction of that church by a German V1 flying bomb in 1944.

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