Private Alfred Blower

Army Number: 25115

Battalion: 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Tipton, Staffordshire. Husband of Alice Maria Morris (formerly Blower), of 26, Tudor Street, Tipton. He enlisted at Tipton and was killed in action, 17th July 1916, age 35, by shellfire whilst serving in the line to the south-east of Trones Wood, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Alfred Blower is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Park Methodist church Tipton, Staffordshire. 
Tipton Library War Memorial, Tipton, Staffordshire.