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Alfred Berridge

Service Number PO/82(S)
Military Unit Portsmouth Bn Royal Naval Division Royal Marine Light Infantry
Date of birth 21 Jun 1894
Date of Death 09 Jul 1915 (21 Years Old)
Place of Birth Mansfield Nottinghamshire
Employment, Education or Hobbies In 1911 he was a core maker in an iron foundry.
Family History

He was the son of Alfred and Jane Berridge and the brother of Arthur, Ada, Elizabeth, George, Ethel, Elsie and Lily Berridge. They lived at 26 Radford Street Mansfield.

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Extra Information

Pink Farm Cemetery Helles Berridge was one of 'Kitchener's Marines' who were transferred from the Sherwood Foresters to the RMLI. Des Turner notes '600 RMLI transfers came from 2 regiments - 200 from the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (KOYLI) and 400 from the Sherwood Foresters. They were predominantly ex-miners and labourers, fit men wanted for their ability to dig trenches and tunnels. The 200 KOYLI recruits were transferred to Plymouth Division RMLI and were given service numbers PLY/1(S) to PLY200(S). This was also the case for the Sherwood Foresters 200 who were dispatched to Portsmouth where already 30 men were recruited and so they became PO/31(S) to PO/230(S). 200 remaining Foresters went to Chatham and were numbered CH/1 to CH/200(S).'

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