Alfred George Wollen

Memorial: Iron Acton - St James the Less Church

Regiment: Wiltshire Regiment

Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal

Rank and number: Private 202833

Parents: George and Caroline Jane Wollen

Home address: High Street, Iron Acton, Bristol

Date of birth: 1897

Place of birth: Iron Acton, Bristol

Date of death: 30/08/1917

Buried/Commemorated at: Tyne Cott Memorial (Panel 199 to 120), Zonnebeke, Belgium

Age: 20

Further information:

Alfred Wollen was born in 1898 to George Wollen, one of the school managers and a domestic gardener and Caroline Jane Wollen of the High Street, Iron Acton, Bristol

Private Alfred Wollen of the 1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment was Killed in Action on 30 August 1917 and has no known grave being commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. Alfred was one of two men killed whilst the battalion was marching from Asylum, Ypres to the front line after being bused in from the Steenvorde area. In total, before they even reached the front line on that day, the Battalion casualties were two men killed, six men wounded, one wounded but still at duty and one man with shell shock

By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):

Yate and District Heritage Centre, Forces War Records and CWGC