Rank
Lieutenant
Regiment
Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Date of death
9 March 1919
Age of death
29
Address
80 Compton Aveune
East Ham
NWM
E6 3DP
Address source
1911 Census
Local memorial
Cemetery / Memorial
United Kingdom
Biography
Alfred Edward Challis was born on 25th July 1899. His parents, Abraham Markham and Josephine Challis, worked as missionaries. Alfred was one of nine children, although three of his siblings had already died by 1911.
In 1911, Alfred was living with his parents and two younger siblings at 80 Compton Avenue, East Ham, and was working as clerk to a wholesale leather merchant.
During the war, Alfred became a Lieutenant for the Machine Gun Corps. He survived the armistice but died on 9th March 1919, in London. Alfred was buried at the City of London Cemetery in Manor Park.
Research by Redbridge Museum
Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Ancestry.com