GRIST, Alfred Charles

Soissons Memorial, FranceCredit: CWGC

Private
1st Battalion
Wiltshire Regiment

Alfred was born 1898 in Newport to Frederick Charles & Emily Ann (nee WARD) GRIST. In 1901 the family were living at 33 New Street & in 1911 at 40 Trafalgar Road, both in Newport.

Alfred, aged 20, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action, during Battles of the Aisne & the Marne, on the 27th of May 1918. His body was never recovered or identified & so Alfred is commemorated by the Commission on the Soissons Memorial to The Missing in France together with 3,913 of his First World War comrades.

Alfred is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.