1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Alfred Allen Waldron was born in 1866 at Brixton, London, the son of Allan and Annie Waldron.
Alfred had previously served in the National Reserve and enlisted in the Territorial Force, 1/4th Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol on 7 August 1914, when he stated his age to be aged 39 years and two months — this appears to have been 10 years younger than actual age!
He gave his address as 22 Napier Street, Gloucester.
He spent the period 7 August 1914 to 30 March 1915 at Bristol, during which time he was promoted to Lance Corporal on 14 January 1915.
From 31 March 1915 to 6 August 1915 he was in France, returning to the UK on 7 August 1915, where he stayed until discharged from the Army on 18 April 1916, due to sickness.
He was found medically unfit for further service and received a Silver War Badge. After returning from France he appears to have been posted to ‘C’ Company, 82nd Provisional Battalion and was discharged from their camp at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex.
Alfred was married to Elizabeth, who was living at 22 Napier Street, Gloucester and this is where he died according to a death notice in the Gloucester Citizen of 31 August 1921.
These details are from his Army Pension Record held at the National Archives but no Service Record survives to indicate that he suffered injury whilst on active service – though this seems likely.
Lance Corporal Alfred Allen Waldron died aged 55 from peritonitis in Gloucester on 26 August 1921 and this date was five days before the cut-off date for inclusion in the Commonwealth War Graves Register as a casualty of the Great War.
He has a standard CWGC headstone.
Research by Graham Adams 10 May 2014 (revised 10 August 2021)