Completed Alfred Round

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Serjeant 2720 Alfred Round
1894 - 21/4/1916 (21)
https://www.tiptonremembers.net/index.php/round-alfred

Dob 8/6/1894 Dudley
ROUND Alfred
1894 Tipton
Sandwell Register Office TIP/143/3

Baptism 5/7/1894
Staffordshire Tipton Green
Church name Park Lane Wesleyan Chapel
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 39
Birth date 08 Jun 1894
Baptism date 05 Jul 1894
Person forename Alfred
Person sex M
Father forename Alfred
Mother forename Mary Jane
Father surname ROUND
Person abode 51 Waterloo St, Tipton

Parents Alfred Round & Mary Jane Roberts

Parents Marriage
Staffordshire Place Ocker Hill
Church name St Mark
Register type Parish Register
Register entry number 151
Marriage date 15 Mar 1885
Groom forename Alfred
Groom surname ROUND
Groom age 25
Groom condition bachelor
Groom occupation Builder
Groom abode Tipton
Bride forename Mary Jane
Bride surname ROBERTS
Bride age 24
Bride condition spinster
Bride abode Tipton
Groom father forename Eli
Groom father surname ROUND
Groom father occupation Builder
Bride father forename Joseph
Bride father surname ROBERTS
Bride father occupation Furnaceman
Witness 1 Joseph UNDERHILL
Witness 2 Alice UNDERHILL

1901 51 Waterloo Street, Tipton, Staffs.
Alfred Round (41, Bricklayer, born Tipton), his wife Mary Jane (40, born Tipton), and their 4 children: Ernest (15, Bricklayer's Labourer, born Tipton), Edgar (13, Scholar, born Tipton), Alfred (6, Scholar, born Tipton), and Oliver (2, born Tipton).

1911 60 Waterloo Street, Tipton, Staffs.
Alfred Round (51, Bricklayer, born Tipton), his wife Mary Jane (50, born Tipton), and 2 of their 4 surviving children of 5: Alfred (16, School, born Tipton), and Oliver (12, School, born Tipton).

WW1 Records
Serjeant 2720 Alfred Round
Died of Wounds on Friday, 21st April 1916, age 21.
Alfred was wounded in action on 8th April 1916, suffering a bullet wound to the head.
Buried in Grave V. B. 7. at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France.
1st/6th Bn., South Staffordshire Regiment. 137th Brigade of 46th Division.
Son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Round, of 60 Waterloo Street, Tipton, Staffs.
Born: Tipton, Enlisted: Wolverhampton, Resident: Tipton.
Soldiers papers did not survive

Dod 21/4/1916 Died of wounds

Burial
Buried in Grave V. B. 7. at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France.

www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/505371/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108 ... fred-round

Commemorated
Commemorated on the Tipton Library, and Dudley Grammar School memorials.

Any other info
Alfred Round was a former pupil of Dudley Grammar School, and was a teacher at Dudley Port School

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