No.81606, Company Quarter Master Sergeant, Alfred William GILL
Aged 35
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Born in 1884 (1st qtr Bury St.Edmunds 4a:669) son of Alfred and (née BREAM)
1891 census...Aged 8 he was at 16 Victoria Place, Bury St.Edmunds with his father Alfred GILL [29] bricklayer; his mother Kate [28] born London; sisters Kate [5], Ethel Ada [4] and Hetty Elizabeth [1]. All except his mother were born in Bury St.Edmunds. 1901 census...Aged 18, a bricklayer, he was boarding at 19 Fulbourn Road, Walthamstow with the family of John PENROSE (foreman builder/scffolder). At 52 Mill Lane, Bury St.Edmunds were his widower father and sisters Kate, Ethel and Hetty. His mother had died in 1900. 1911 census...Aged 27, a Private in the 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, he was in India. His father and sister Ada were at 55 Mill Lane. Bury St.Edmunds |
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He enlisted in 1903. He died at Ladywell Road Military Hospital, Bermondsey. According to newspaper reports, he died from the results of gas poisoning
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