Alfred Ernest Flux

Memorial: Hambrook - Whiteshill Common

Regiment: Royal Field Artillery

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

Rank and number: Corporal 832011

Parents: Alfred William and Emily Flux

Home address: Walton Farm, Hambook, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Farmer

Date of birth: 1893

Place of birth: Hambrook, Bristol

Date of death: 21/03/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Pozieres Memorial (Panel 7 to 10), France

Age: 25

Further information:

Alfred Fux was the born in 1893 at the White Horse Inn in Hambrook. He was the son of Alfred and Emily Flux of Walton Farm. Alfred was one of five children in the family. Albert Thomas (Tom), Kate (Kitty), Afred Ernest (Alf), Francis Charles (Charlie) and Mabel Emily. Alfred had attended Whiteshill School Hambrook

Alfred enlisted in Bristol at the outbreak of war and was with the Gloucestershire Regiment and then served with the "T" 61st TM Battery, Royal Field Artillery

Alfred was, in 1916, in the Laventie area with involvement in the Battle of Fromelles on 19/20 July 1916 and stayed in this sector until his Division moved south to the Somme in mid-November 1916. The Battery stayed at Bouzincourt until January 1917 and then they went back for rest. February 1917 saw a move to Harbonnieres, south of the River Somme until May 1917. By June 1917 the Battery was near Arras and then moved up to the Ypres sector where they were employed as stretcher bearers for the 38th (Welsh) Division in the Canal Bank sector on the first say of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). They stayed in the salient until September when they moved back down to the Arras front, holding the dreaded Chemical Works and Greenland Hill sectors for the next two and half months. They then moved down to the Somme area and in January 1918 were ensconced in the Holnon Wood sector west of St Quentin. It was whilst holding these positions against the German Spring Offensive on 21 March 1918 that Alfred Flux was killed. Alfred was at first reported as missing, and then having been killed

The regimental war diary says they were billeted in caves under Bouzincourt Church on 28 November and the graffiti signature, found by the BBC Time Team researchers, is dated 30 November

Alfred was the close cousin of Harold Randolf Hill who died in 1916 and is mentioned on the Downend Scouts Memorial

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

With kind permission of Frenchay Village Museum. Forces War Records and CWGC