James Alfred Berry was born at the end of 1891/beginning 1892, to Ephraim and Fanny Berry. He was baptised on 15/01/1892 at Waldron, East Sussex. Was known as Alfred by the time of the 1911 Census, when he was described as an agricultural labourer. He joined the Territorial Army at Waldron on 19/11/1909, enlisted in the Army Reserve (4th Royal Sussex Regiment) 31/03/1910 at Eastbourne. He joined the regular Army (Queen’s Royal West Surrey Regiment) on 20/06/1913. He was in the 2nd Battalion (army number 10405) when he died of wounds on 1st November 1914 in northern France. He is buried in a military cemetery in Boulogne.

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