ALFRED ROBERT IDDOLES

IPSWICH WAR MEMORIAL | Posted on 13th March 2016 |

Photograph courtesy of Richard Marsh.

Born: 27th March 1888, St. Pancras, London.

Died: 29th July 1920; age 32; Kirkuk, Iraq.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 128249

Regiment: Royal Fusiliers, 4th Battalion.

Formerly:10th County of London Regiment. service no. 1901

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

IV.D.I.

Baghdad (Northgate) War Cemetery, Part 1.

Iraq.

Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Doris G. Baker (formerly Iddoles), of 8, Rosebery Road, Ipswich.

CENSUS

1891 37, Drummond Crescent, Somers Town, London.

Alfred was 4 years old and living with his parents & sisters.

Alfred Iddoles, 28, Printer’s Labourer, born St. Luke’s, London.

Annie Iddoles (nee Hurst), 24, born St. Pancras, London.

Annie Elizabeth Iddoles, 6, born St. Pancras.

Eliza Iddoles, 2, born St. Pancras.

Emma Julia Iddoles, 6 days, born St. Pancras – died October 1892, London.

1901 4, Dorset Street, Spitalfields, London.

Alfred was 14 years old and living with his parents & sisters.

Alfred, 36, a Printer’s Labourer.

Annie, 32.

Annie, 16.

Eliza, 12.

Jessie Iddoles, 8, born St. Pancras.

1911 20, Garden Street, Stepney Green, London.

Alfred was 23 years old, a Gas Stoker. He was living with his widowed mother & siblings.

Annie, 40, a Charwoman.

Jessie, 18, a Tailoress.

Arthur Robert Iddoles, 16, Vanguard, born Holborn, London.

Alfred’s father, Alfred Iddoles, died in October 1904 in Bethnal Green, London, and was buried on 20th October at Newham Cemetery, London.

On the 27th August 1896, Alfred, aged 9, his mother, Annie, aged 29, and his siblings, Annie, aged 11, and Arthur, aged 1, were admitted to the City Road, Holborn, Workhouse. They were all discharged on the 5th September 1896.

On the 23rd August 1897, Alfred was registered by his father, Alfred Iddoles, of 4, Dorset Street, to attend St. Mary’s School, Tower Hamlets.

In 1913, at St. George in the East, London, Alfred’s mother, Annie Iddoles, married Leonard McKay, born 1879, Manchester, Lancashire. Annie and Leonard made their home at 17, Grove Street, St. George in the East, where Leonard was a compositor for Mr. Simon Tolovinsky, a printer, of 208, Commercial Road, London E.I.

On the 30^th January 1916, at St. Helen’s Church, Ipswich, 24 year old Alfred, a Private for the 2/10 London Regiment, married 19 year old Doris Gertrude Denny, born 1898, Ipswich – daughter of William Denny, a postal official for the Post Office, and Gertrude Sarah Denny (nee Soar), of 8, Rosebery Road, Ipswich.

Doris and Alfred had one daughter:

Mary Magdalen Peggy Iddoles, born on Christmas Eve, 1916, in Ipswich, and baptised on St. Valentine’s Day, 1917, at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Doris G. Iddoles – widow – for Mary Magdalen Peggy Iddoles – child.