Private Alfred Curzon

Army Number: 200905 formerly 3209

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Crich, Derbyshire. Son of John and Hannah Curzon, of Bennetts Lane, Crich. He was a gritstone cutter prior to enlisting at Crich. He went to France on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

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

Private Alfred Curzon is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Crich, Derbyshire.
St. Mary’s Church Roll of Honour, Crich, Derbyshire.
Glebe Field Community Centre, Crich, Derbyshire.

His brother Private Walter Curzon, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War