A REAL WAR HERO – PC ALFRED ARTHUR MARTIN

PC MARTIN was born on 12th March 1886, the son of James and Eliza MARTIN of Orpington, Kent. He was married to Caroline MARTIN and lived at 51, Blackwall Buildings, Fulbourne Street, Whitechapel, London.

The officer joined the Railway Police in June 1914 having transferred from the Engineers Department of the Great Eastern Railway.. A Sergeant, number 5918 in the 10th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, he was killed in action on Friday 12th November 1915 aged 31 years. He is buried at Ypres reservoir Cemetery in Belgium.

reproduced courtesy of Kevin Gordon, British transport Police History Society http://www.btp.police.uk/

His CWGC record reads:

Name:     MARTIN, ALFRED
Initials:     A
Nationality:     United Kingdom
Rank:     Serjeant
Regiment/Service:     Highland Light Infantry
Unit Text:     10th Bn.
Age:     31
Date of Death:     12/11/1915
Service No:     5918
Additional information:     Son of James and Eliza Martin, of Orpington, Kent; husband of Caroline Esther Martin, of 51, Blackwall Buildings, Fulbourne St., Whitechapel, London.
Casualty Type:     Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:     VI. E. 49.
Cemetery:     YPRES RESERVOIR CEMETERY