339 British soldiers died on this one day in 1914. 11210 Private Alfred Charles Oliver of C Company, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, was killed in action on the 22nd December 1914. He was 22 years old, the son of William and Eliza Ann Oliver of 61 South Park Road, Wimbledon, south London. Soldiers Died in The Great War notes that Alfred was born in Torquay and enlisted at Exeter. His place of residence at the time was West Bay in Dorset.
Alfred's army numbers usggests that he joined the Coldstream Guards in late August 1914 and he arrived in France on the 8th December that year. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the war memorial at Le Touret.
Alfred has a three-line entry in De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour which adds the additional information that he was the son of William Oliver of West Bay, Dorset and that he was killed in action at Givenchy.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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