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Alfred Henry Royal Oakes
01/06/1879 - 23/02/1917
CWGC Cemetery: Bromley (St Luke's) CemeteryOther Memorials: Shortlands War Memorial, St Mary's Church, Bromley, Beckenham War Memorial
Place of birth: Calcutta, India
Last known address in Bromley: 11 Scotts Lane
Last known address in Bromley: 11 Scotts Lane
Military information
Regiment/Service: Army Pay CorpsBattalion/Ship: Army Pay Office (Warley)
Rank: Private
Number: 7722
Family information
Parents: Alfred William Davidson & Marian Leontine Oakes (nee Shonerstedt)Parents' occupation: Director East India merchants
Siblings: George Frederick Thomas, Marian Nellie
Relatives on War Memorial: OAKES, G.F.T.
Census information
Extra details
Alfred was the eldest of Alfred William Davidson and Marian Leontine Oakes's three children. Born in Calcutta, he was sent home to be educated at Thornhill School Blackheath, and after business training he took up a position with a cigar factory in India in 1900. He was about to take up poultry farming in England when war broke out.
After being rejected for war service he was eventually accepted into the Army Pay Corps. He became ill and pneumonia set in, he died at Rosary Cottage, Vicarage Farm Lane, Hounslow, Middlesex.
Alfred's brother George also died.
Additional photographs
Source: St Mary's Shortlands Book of Remembrance
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