HUNT, Alfred Ernest

Shanklin Cemetery, Isle of WightCredit: Gary Newman

Petty Officer
HMS Dundonald
Royal Navy

Alfred was born on the 19th of March 1908 in Newport to Thomas Joshua & Lillian (nee SPANNER) HUNT of Hunnyhill, Newport. He married Dorothy Ivy Agnes HISCOCK in 1933 at St Blasius Church in Shanklin.

HMS Dundonald was a shore training establishment in Ayrshire, training Royal Navy Beach Commandos.

Alfred, aged 35, died on the 29th of May 1943 at Mearnskirk Hospital, Renfrew in Scotland. Alfred’s body was brough home to the Island & he is buried in Shanklin Cemetery beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “MEMORY DRIFTS TO DAYS GONE PAST LIFE GOES ON BUT THOUGHTS STILL LAST”.

Alfred is also remembered on the Sandown & Shanklin 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.