ALFRED ERNEST HALE

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 12th March 2016 |

Images courtesy of Richard

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1918.

Born: 1892, Ipswich.

Died: 3rd June 1918; age 26; KiA.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich – in the Post Office Rifles.

Employed: Ipswich Post Office.

Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: 608732.

Regiment: London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), 18th Battalion.

Formerly 372601, 8th London Regiment.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

B.3.

Montigny Communal Cemetery,

Somme,

France.

Relatives Notified & Address: Son of George & Anna Hale, of 13, Khartoum Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1901 Kirby Street, Ipswich.

Alfred was 8 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

George Hale, 42, a Postman, born Coddenham, Suffolk.

Anna Hale (nee Page), 43, born Crowfield, Suffolk.

George Albert Hale, 19, a Postman, born Ipswich.

Frank Herbert Hale, a Baker, born Ipswich.

Emily Anna Hale, 15, born Ipswich.

1911 13, Khartoum Road, Ipswich.

Alfred was 18 years old, a Restaurant Porter. He was living with his parents & siblings.

George, 52, a Postman.

Anna, 53.

Bertie Robert Hale, 31, a Tram Motorman – Borough Council Corporation, born Crowfield.

Frank, 26, a Baker.

Emily, 25.

1 boarder.

Alfred’s brother, Frederick Victor Hale, was born in the Spring of 1887 and died on the 23^rd October 1887, at the family home in Kirby Street, Ipswich and was buried at Section Y, at Ipswich Old Cemetery.

Suffolk Mercury – Friday, 28^th October 1887 – On Monday evening, the Coroner held an inquest in the parish schoolroom of St. John’s, California, on the body of Frederick Victor Hale, aged six months, son of George Hale, a postman, of Kirby Street, Ipswich. In opening the inquiry, the Coroner said that the facts of the case were as follows: About seven weeks ago, the child, which had been in very good health, was suddenly taken ill, and Mr. Waller, a surgeon, was called in to see it. He prescribed for it, and it apparently recovered. About a week ago, however, the child was taken ill again, and Mr. Waller was applied to, and sent some medicine and powders, but did not attend. These were administered to the child, but it died suddenly on Sunday morning. Probably after hearing the evidence, Mr. Waller would be of the opinion that death resulted from natural causes, and in that case, the only question for the Jury would be whether the parents had treated the child with all reasonable care. In the eye of the law, it was as incumbent upon the parents to obtain medical aid for their children as it was to provide them with food, and this fact could not be too widely known. The evidence bore out this statement, and Mr. Waller having stated that death resulted from natural causes, the Jury, after a few remarks from the Coroner, returned a verdict accordingly, and exonerated the parents from all blame.

On the 29^th February 1916, Alfred’s brother, Albert George Hale, a postman, of 303, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, died of pneumonia and cardiac failure at the East Suffolk Hospital, Ipswich, aged 35. Albert left a widow, Alice Kate Hale (nee Keeley), and three children.