Lance Corporal Alfred Childs, Service Number 44508

Lance Corporal Alfred Childs, Service Number 44508

195th Company Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

Died 2nd August 1917, aged 21

Menin Gate Memorial Gate, Ypres

Panel 56, Reg. 29, Part 15 (UK)

Son of Barney and Mary Childs of Huntingdon’s Farm, Sawston.

He enlisted with The City of London Rifles on 4th September 1914 and went to France the following August. He was wounded in the battle of Loos two months later and returned home. Recovering, he returned to France just before Christmas 1915 and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was killed in the Battle of Loos. He had an elder brother in the army.