Alfred Key
Card Puncher for Martin & Holliwell, Radford Boulevard (Army Records 1911)
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Alfred Key was the son of Alfred and Emma Key. Their children included: Mary Ann (b.1880), Edith (b.1883), Annie (c.b.1885), Gertie/Gertrude (b.1887), Sarah (b.1891), Alfred (b.1894), and Hilda (b.1899).
The family lived at: 2 Highhurst Street, Radford [C.1901]; 47 Norwood Road, Radford [C.1911 & Army records/1917]; 76 Norwood Road, Radford [Army records/1919 & CWGC]. Alfred Key, a lace maker, died at Nottingham, aged 84, in 1942. His wife, Emma, had predeceased him, dying at Nottingham, aged 71 in 1929.
Private Alfred Key enlisted at Nottingham on 24 August 1911 giving his age as 17 yrs and 6 months , his address was 47 Norwod Road, Radford, Notingham, he was a card puncher he served in the 7th [Robin Hoods] Bn. Sherwood Foresters; embarked at Southampton for France on 23 February 1915; went missing on 13 October 1915 and declared dead in December 1916; his name was added to the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
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Alfred Key
Photograph published 26th December 1916 in the Nottingham Evening Post , courtesy of Jim Grundy and his facebook pages Small Town Great War Hucknall 1914-1918