Birth: January-March 1893 Milford, Surrey, UK
Father: Edwin Luff 1857-1930
Mother: Mary Anne (Ann) Earl 1865-1927
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: Believed not married
Death: 27 September 1915 Pas-de-Calais, France
Burial: No known grave but on Addenda Panel, Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Believed none
Birth of Alfred Luff in FreeBMD in January-March 1893 in Hambledon (2a 148) which included Milford.
In the 1901 census as Alfred Luff aged 9, born in Milford, and living with his parents (Edwin and Mary), two brothers (Edwin and Thomas), five sisters (Agnes, Ella, Ethel, Kate and Mabel) and cousin (Herbert Wilkins - son of Kate Luff) in Ladycross Road, Witley, Surrey.
In the 1911 census as Alfred Luff aged 18, born in Milford, and living with Edwin and Mary (parents?), Edwin, Harry, James and Thomas (brothers?) and Agnes, Alice, Caroline and Kate (sisters?) in Hambledon, Surrey.
Entry in the Ancestry UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 for Alfred Luff of Milford, Surrey, private 14343 in the Northamptonshire Regiment 7th Battalion who was killed in action on 27 September 1915 in Aldershot.
Entry in Ancestry British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index Cards, 1914-1920 for Alfred Luff, private in the Northamptonshire Regiment awarded Victoryy, British and 1915 Star medals having served in France from 1 September 1915 and was killed in action on 27 September 1915.
Entry in Commonwealth War Graves for Alfred Luff, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Luff, of Green Lane, New Road, Milford, born Milford, Surrey, and private 14343 in the Northamptonshire Regiment 7th Battalion who died on 27 September 1915 on the Addenda Panel, Loos Memorial. The Loos Memorial forms the side and back of Dud Corner Cemetery, and commemorates over 20,000 officers and men who have no known grave, who fell in the area from the River Lys to the old southern boundary of the First Army, east and west of Grenay. Loos-en-Gohelle is a village 5 kilometres north-west of Lens, and Dud Corner Cemetery is located about 1 kilometre west of the village, to the north-east of the N43 the main Lens to Bethune road.
Entry in Cemetery Records Online for Milford, Surrey states:
Entry in Roll of Honour East Meon, Hampshire states:
Alfred Luff was my half second cousin once removed.
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