Alfred Job Ball

Memorial: Pilning

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment

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

Rank and number: Private 26206

Parents: Job and Martha Ball

Marital status: Single

Home address: Northwick Farm, Northwick, Pilning, Bristol

Pre-war occupation: Farm Labourer

Date of birth: 1895

Place of birth: Winford, Somerset

Date of death: 14/06/1918

Buried/Commemorated at: Marfaux British Cemetry, Marfaux, France

Age: 23

Further information:

Alfred Job Ball was the son of Job and Martha Ball, he was born in 1895 at Winford, Somerset. Job Ball was a farmer living with his wife Martha at Ridgehill, Winford, Long Ashton. They had four sons Charles (1890), Francis (1892), Alfred (1895) Frederick (1898) and a daughter Edith (1902). By the 1911 Census, they had moved to Northwick Farm, Northwick. Charles was no longer living with the family, Francis and Alfred were both working on the farm, Frederick and young Edith were at school

Alfred Ball enlisted with the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was Killed in Action in France near Bois-de-Courton on the 14th June 1918, he was 23 years old

Alfred's older brother Francis Henry Ball, is also commemorated on this memorial. There is a memorial in the church yard of St Thomas's Church, Northwick. Carved into the stonework is a rifle entwined with laurel leaves and ammunition bandoliers, also the regimental badge of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry. It is dedicated to Alfred and Francis Ball

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

Publication: Village Heroes. Pilning and Severn Beach History Group: Nancy Vowles and Val George. Forces War Records