Private Arthur (Alf) Redman.
12154 2nd Duke of Wellingtons West Riding Regiment.
Died of Wounds (Gas) 7th May 1915, aged 29.
(Alf’s brother Robert was killed in action 30th July 1917)
Alfred was born in Bolton about 1886. The son of Robert Redman and Jane Alice Rothwell.
In the 1901 census the family lived at 12 Layfield St, Burnley. Robert 48 Slater, Jane 48, John 22, Elizabeth 19, Robert 16 slater, Alfred 14, Ellen 13, and Nellie 11. All the children were born in Bolton.
Alf married Mary Hannah Greaves in Burnley Register Office on the 11th Jan 1908. They had 1 child Olive born in 1908.
In the 1911 census Alfred 24, slater and Mary Hannah 26 were living at 44 Clarence St, Burnley.
From the Burnley Express 5 June 1915: A GAS VICTIM. DIED AFTER 5-DAYS IN TRENCHES.
The fate which has overtaken a Burnley soldier in the West Riding Regiment, Private A Redman, seems particularly hard for after being in hospital for 5 weeks and undergoing an operation, he was killed by German gas 5 days after reaching the front. His wife who resides in Clegg Street East, Burnley, received a message from the War Office last Thursday, to say that he was missing but the following day the official information was received that he had been gassed. He leaves a wife and child, the wife being a daughter of Mr and Mrs Greaves of the Bridge Inn Bank Parade.
Lived on Clegg St East.
Arthur left his effects to his mother.
Arthur was buried in Le Treport Military Cemetery, France: Grave Ref; Plot 2, Row C, Grave 4. Son of Martha Redman, of 20, Harold Street, Bingley.