ELDRIDGE, Alfred

Alfred was born 1892 in Newport to William Henry & Emily Jane (nee FRY) of 1 Ash Road in Newport. The family lived had previously lived at 18 Hearn Street, Newport in 1901.

Alfred, aged 25, was Killed in Action on the 12th of July 1917 & lies, alongside 572 of his comrades, in a cemetery that occupies a site at a road junction where three batteries of Belgian artillery were positioned in 1915. Battery Corner Cemetery, in Belgium was begun by the 8th Division in June 1917 after the Battle of Messines & it was used until October 1918, largely for burials from a dressing station in a cottage nearby. Almost half of the graves are of casualties who belonged, or were attached, to artillery units.

Alfred is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials & also on the memorials of Barton School & St Pauls Parish Church on Staplers Road. His brother Percy Arthur also fell in The Great War.