POWIS, ALFRED HENRY
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Private
4926254
24/09/1944
28
The Monmouthshire Regiment 2nd Bn
I. C. 15
Not gone from memory nor from love
but gone to dwell with God above. Sadly missed
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Son of Alfred and Louise Powis; husband of Hilda V. Powis, of Islington, London.
Killed during the battle around the hamlet of Voorheide, Belgium. Initially buried there.
From the service files of Alfred Henry Powis, we can gather the following information:
He was born on March 13, 1916, in Shoreditch, near London. On April 1, 1939, he married Hilda Violet, with whom he had at least one child.
Alfred enlisted in the army on December 12, 1940, joining the South Staffordshire Regiment. He was 5 feet 6½ inches tall, with brown eyes and brown hair, and bore tattoos on both forearms. On August 12, 1944, he was transferred to the Norfolk Regiment, and shortly afterward, on August 26, 1944, to the South Wales Borderers, where he was attached to the 2nd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment.
During the fighting near Voorheide, close to Arendonk, Alfred was killed in action on September 24, 1944, at the age of 28.
Initial gravesite at Voorheide.
