Alfred Leonard Calver

A Private with the Corps of Military Accountants, Alfred died on 20th of July 1921 at the age of 24. 

Alfred was born at Lowestoft on 11 October 1895, a son of Samuel and Elizabeth Calver. In 1901 his family were living at 131 Saint Peter's Street. From 15 September 1908 Alfred attended Lowestoft School of Science. By 1911 Alfred's father had died and his family still lived at 131 Saint Peter's Street.

During the First World War Alfred enlisted in the London Regiment, number 6245 then 573150, and served with the 2/17th Battalion. He was in France from 24 June 1916 to 22 November 1916; in Salonika, with A Company, from 1 December 1916 to 3 March 1916, when he was admitted, injured, to 31 Casualty Clearing Station; East Africa from 9 July 1917 to 31 August 1918; and in France from 5 September 1918 to 19 February 1919. Subsequently he joined the Corps of Military Accountants and was attached to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Iraq.