My great grand uncle Alfred Fawcett died ninety-nine years ago today. He was born in 1894, in Middlesbrough, one of nine children. His parents were George Fawcett, of Guisborough, and Mary Honeyman, of Hutton Rudby.
He enlisted in Middlesbrough on 11th November, 1914.
On the 15th September, 1916, he was wounded in action close to Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme and died of his injuries on September 16th.
He is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery at Mericourt-L’Abbe.
His name, along with his brother Ernest's, is engraved on the Middlesbrough War Memorial.
