James Arthur Aldridge
Rank: Private
Regiment: Number 1 Supernumerary Company, 2nd/5th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment
Wife: Mrs Florence Agnes Aldridge (nee Pinner)
Address: Hastings
Other Info: Miss Pinner lived in Sandbury near Hythe, Kent. The wedding took place at the Prish Church, Saltwood on April 26th 1915. A guard of honour composed of his comrades and the senior N.C.O.s formed up outside the church.
Published: May 1915
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This man was born in Hastings in 1869. He attested on the 28 October 1914 at Hastings as a 43 year old man and a plateman. He was given the regimental number of 34789. He became an acting Lance Corporal on the 11 October 1915, and Lance Corporal on the 4 November 1916. He was transferred to 428 Agricultural Company of the Labour Corps on the 3 December 1917 at Fort Grain, and then to 660 Agricultural Company on the 13 April 1918 at Norwich. He was demobilised on the 18 February 1919 and was to live at 6 Union Street, St Leonards.
He was living at 23 Earle Street, a porter, and a Wesleyan, when he enlisted on the 4 June 1919 at Hastings into the Labour Corps. He served in France from the 21 June to the 30 October 1919. On attestation, he said he was single and his parents were dead. He gave as next of kin his sister Jane Adams of 6 Union Street, St Leonards. The confusion may have arisen from his earlier papers giving him as single before his marriage.
The enlistment papers include letters regarding the fact that he was in fact married.
Florence Agnes Aldridge, nee Pinner, became a midwife in 1922 from The Firs, Brooke, Norwich. She became an assistant nurse in 1944. Her address was given as Mereside, Brooke, Norwich. She was probably the 17 year old servant at Pond Farm, Holme Hale, Thetford, Norfolk in the 1911 census. That woman was probably the baby baptised in 1893 at Larling, Norfolk, daughter of David Pinner, of Roudham, maltster.
The couple had a daughter, Winifred, born before their marriage in 1914 in Norfolk, and a son, Arthur. She died in 1975, Brooke, Norfolk. These details are taken from a family tree on Ancestry.
I have not identified what happened to James Arthur Aldridge.