46898 Rifleman Alfred Charles Wilkins of the 13th Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps was killed in action on 13th September 1914. Alfred was born in my home town of Chelmsford in Essex but he was living in Hornsey Middlesex at the time of his enlistment. He enlisted at Harringay.
Alfred has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial in France. Chelmsford is one of those UK towns which, for some unaccountable reason, did not see fit to publicly commemorate its war dead by name. The war memorial at the Civic Centre in the west of the town does not list any of the fallen from either war.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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