Private Walter Alford

Army Number: 265329 (formerly 2111)

Battalion: 1/6th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Nottingham. Son of Edward and Emma Alford, of Nottingham; husband of Elizabeth Alford, of Gregory’s Row, Woodlinkin, Langley Mill, Derbyshire. He was a mason’s labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham, went to France on 25th February 1918 and died from gas poisoning on 8th May 1918

Buried Etaples Military Cemetery, France. Plot 66, Row B. Grave 30.

Private Walter Alford is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Sapper Charles Alford, Royal Engineers, also fell in the Great War.