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Pte. Alfred Edward Morton
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.9th April 1917)
Alfred Morton was born in Aston, Birmingham in 1886 and was a moulder in a brass factory before the war. Alfred had served for 5 years in the Warwickshire Volunteers since 1906 and when war broke out he immediately joined the Kings Royal Rifles, and later transferred to the R.F.A. In October 1915 he was transferred to the 2nd Wiltshires.
He fought at Lens, Festubert and the Somme before being killed while attacking the Hindenburg line near St Martin sur Cojeul on 9th of April 1917. Alfred left behind a wife and a 3 year old daughter, who was my mother.