Bonfield, A V
ALBERT VICTOR BONFIELD
Remembered with honour Pargny British Cemetery: Plot II, Row B, Grave 33.
He enlisted in St Helier, Jersey, and was formerly 10276 King’s Own Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 11 August 1914, and was presumed killed in action. Unfortunately, Albert’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Husband of Carrie Maud (nee BARTON, formerly BONFIELD) TERRY of Dover, Kent.
His parents are unknown.
Albert was born 1892 in Walthamstow, Essex, and married 1914 in the Dover district. He resided in Watford. Carrie remarried January 1918 at Sts Peter & Paul, Charlton by Dover, to Philip William TERRY. He died 1939 aged 49; Carrie died 1959 aged 63; both in the Dover district.
On the 1901 Census, a scholar aged 7 he was living in an institution somewhere in Watford! On the 1911 Census, a Private in the Army aged 19, he was stationed at Grevede Lecq Barracks, St Mary’s, Jersey.
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)