Private Alfred Chandler

Army Number : 5890

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Lodsworth Lickfold, Sussex and lived at Lurgashall, Sussex. Son of Walter and Margaret Chandler, of Lods Cottage, Lurgashall. He was a hoop maker prior to enlisting on 24th March 1916 at Nottingham. He went to France on 16th July 1916 and suffered from a right inguinal hernia and was admitted to 43 Casualty Clearing Station, Warlencourt, 25th September 1916. He was transferred to the 2nd Australian General Hospital Boulogne, 28th September 1916 and to England on Hospital Ship St. Dennis, 30th September 1916. He was found to be suffering from tuberculosis and died on 7th May 1917, at Royal West Hospital, Chichester, Sussex.

Died : 7th May 1917.

Buried : Lurgashall (St. Lawrence) Churchyard, Sussex, United Kingdom. West of Church.

Private Alfred Chandler is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Lawrence’s Church War Memorial, Lurgashall, Sussex.