Alexander Alves

A Lieutenant with the Army Service Corps, Alexander died on 26th of May 1918 at the age of 21. 

Alexander was born at Pinchbeck, Spalding, Lincolnshire, in 1896, a son of John Herbert and Minnie Alves. In 1901 his family lived at Rhodesian Villa, Winsover Road, Spalding, and in 1911 they lived at High Street. Spalding. Later his parents lived at Vernona House, Th Marina, Lowestoft, and then Colville House, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft. 

Alexander enlisted in the Lincolnshire Regiment, service number 2862. He attended an Officer Cadet Unit and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 28 November 1914. He was posted to France on 2 December 1916. Alexander was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant on 15 April 1917. From 16 January 1918 he was attached to the 7th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, but did not join the battalion until March 1918. 

On 16 May 1918 the 7th Battalion entered the support lines near Arqueves. At 4 p.m. on the afternoon of 26 May the enemy opened up a heavy bombardment of the battalion’s right company outpost system. The bombardment lasted for two hours, and number three and four posts were badly damaged. Alexander was killed in action on 26 May. In his father’s obituary, published in the Spalding Guardian, 2 April 1920, page 6, it is noted that Alexander was killed by German shell-fire.