Service No: 21259
Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Bn.
"Private Alfred Henry Pell, of the Queen's Royal West Surreys, third son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Pell, of Little End, Old Wimpole, was accidentally killed on October 28th 1916, by the premature bursting of a British trench mortar shell. He was buried on Sunday, October 29th, in the Royal Berkshire Military Cemetery, near Ploegsteert.
His Platoon Commander, in a letter to his mother, speaks of him as "a good man, and liked by all." Private Pell, who was 22 years of age, enlisted on May 5th 1916, in the East Surreys, and was afterwards transferred to the Royal West Surreys and sent out to France in August the same year.
Mr and Mrs Pell's eldest son, Frank, who is in the Royal Engineers, was wounded on October 25th 1916, but is back again in France."
(Herts and Cambs Reporter March 30th 1917)
Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Bn.
"Private Alfred Henry Pell, of the Queen's Royal West Surreys, third son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Pell, of Little End, Old Wimpole, was accidentally killed on October 28th 1916, by the premature bursting of a British trench mortar shell. He was buried on Sunday, October 29th, in the Royal Berkshire Military Cemetery, near Ploegsteert.
His Platoon Commander, in a letter to his mother, speaks of him as "a good man, and liked by all." Private Pell, who was 22 years of age, enlisted on May 5th 1916, in the East Surreys, and was afterwards transferred to the Royal West Surreys and sent out to France in August the same year.
Mr and Mrs Pell's eldest son, Frank, who is in the Royal Engineers, was wounded on October 25th 1916, but is back again in France."
(Herts and Cambs Reporter March 30th 1917)
Service No: 21259
Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Bn.
"Private Alfred Henry Pell, of the Queen's Royal West Surreys, third son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Pell, of Little End, Old Wimpole, was accidentally killed on October 28th 1916, by the premature bursting of a British trench mortar shell. He was buried on Sunday, October 29th, in the Royal Berkshire Military Cemetery, near Ploegsteert.
His Platoon Commander, in a letter to his mother, speaks of him as "a good man, and liked by all." Private Pell, who was 22 years of age, enlisted on May 5th 1916, in the East Surreys, and was afterwards transferred to the Royal West Surreys and sent out to France in August the same year.
Mr and Mrs Pell's eldest son, Frank, who is in the Royal Engineers, was wounded on October 25th 1916, but is back again in France."
(Herts and Cambs Reporter March 30th 1917)
Regiment/Service: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 2nd Bn.
"Private Alfred Henry Pell, of the Queen's Royal West Surreys, third son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Pell, of Little End, Old Wimpole, was accidentally killed on October 28th 1916, by the premature bursting of a British trench mortar shell. He was buried on Sunday, October 29th, in the Royal Berkshire Military Cemetery, near Ploegsteert.
His Platoon Commander, in a letter to his mother, speaks of him as "a good man, and liked by all." Private Pell, who was 22 years of age, enlisted on May 5th 1916, in the East Surreys, and was afterwards transferred to the Royal West Surreys and sent out to France in August the same year.
Mr and Mrs Pell's eldest son, Frank, who is in the Royal Engineers, was wounded on October 25th 1916, but is back again in France."
(Herts and Cambs Reporter March 30th 1917)
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