WICKENS, Alfred Louis

Credit: CWGC

Private

8th Battalion

Australian Infatry

Alfred was born 1887 in Carisbrooke to William & Louisa (nee COSTA) WICKENS who were living at 3 Medina Villas in Carisbrooke around the time of Alfred’s death. In 1891 the family were living in Castle Road & by 1901 at Milton Cottage, Alvington Road, both in Carisbrooke.

Alfred emigrated to Australia in 1910, & his occupation was given as a coachbuilder. He lived in Melbourne & enlisted on the 15th of November 1914. His unit embarked from Melbourne on the 14th of April 1915 aboard HMAT A18 Wiltshire.

Alfred, aged 30, was Killed in Action on the 9th of August 1918 & originally buried close to where he fell. Alfred’s body was exhumed & reburied at Rosieres Communal Cemetery Extension in France on the 2nd of August 1919. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside over 400 First World War comrades, a third of which remain unidentified.

Alfred is also remembered on the Carisbrooke War Memorial.

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.