Alec Charles Andrews
Title
Alec Charles Andrews
Description
Alec Andrews was born in 1894 in Eastcombe and baptised on 10 March 1895 in Eastcombe Chapel. He was the son of Walter Edward Andrews and Eleanor May Curtis. Walter Andrews, who was born in Watford, was a gamekeeper on the Lypiatt Park estate and lived in Bismore, later living in Bournes Green. Alec attended Eastcombe school and enjoyed playing football and cricket, as well as singing in the choir of St Augustine's, later working for Mr Savagar, the head gardener for the Doringtons of Lypiatt.
He enlisted in Stroud in the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He served as a private and on 25 October 1916 a shell landed in a trench occupied by the 8th Glosters fatally wounding Alec Andrews, he died in an ambulance whilst being transported to a field hospital aged 21.
He is buried in the Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension and is remembered on the Eastcombe war memorial.
He enlisted in Stroud in the 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He served as a private and on 25 October 1916 a shell landed in a trench occupied by the 8th Glosters fatally wounding Alec Andrews, he died in an ambulance whilst being transported to a field hospital aged 21.
He is buried in the Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension and is remembered on the Eastcombe war memorial.
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Oakridge History Group
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Citation
“Alec Charles Andrews,” Oakridge Archives, accessed May 5, 2024, https://oakridgearchives.omeka.net/items/show/163.