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Hello! Thanks for the reply. I have done a lot more research on Alfie and have now learned his full story.

I saw you write somewhere about gypsy round ups by the army to force them to sign up? Is that right? Could you tell me more about that please?

Helo

Just go to the photo of Alfie Gaskin and click on the name of the person who put the photo up, it says Caskinhunt, then you find yourself on their profile, you can then send them a message that will aleart them via email, if the person does not reply you can then send a mesage to a moderator who will advice you how to make a new post asking whatever questions that you need the answers to, they have people on Rootschat who can and will help you, i will be writing more on this thread soon so you post will be archived and people will not see it much, so if i write more posts and your post gets relegated back a bit i will re post your post before mine so your request stays in the public domain, if you make contact with Caskinhunt i do hope you find what you seek

michael

Hello! I would be really interested to hear more about Alfie Gaskin, if you have the time please. I am a military historian from Bury St. Edmunds (some of my work here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUFT4ft6SEk) - I'm also a Gaskin. My grandfather was Marky Gaskin and his father John Henry Gaskin (my namesake).

I go to the battlefields often and would love to hear more about Alfie, how I relate to him and where he is buried to visit myself.

Thank you in advance.

Hi thank you for the enclosed. Made interesting reading.

This picture is Alfie Gaskin originally from Sudbury, enlisted into the army in 1917 at Byker Showground, Newcastle. He was killed outside Ypres.