Alfred James Hummerston

Biography:

Full name Alfred James Hummerston, born in 1882 in Lambeth, London, son of Thomas Hummerston, coach painter's labourer, and Jane nee Read, both from Lambeth. The family was living on New Kent Road there in 1891. In 1911 Alfred was a groom domestic living at 3 Barlow's Yard, Henley-on-Thames. His name was mentioned, inaccurately as Hammerston, in the Oxford Times of 26 September 1914. The 1921 Register of electors has him living on Church Road, Wheatley. He married Alice G. Clinkard of Garsington in 1924.

Regiment:
Royal Army Service Corps
Father:
Thomas
Born:
1882
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