C Sgt Maj 2/5 & 7 Lincolns

Alfred Kendall served as a Company Sergeant Major, 240030, in the 7th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment in France and Flanders. He died of wounds on 21st October 1918 age 31 and is buried in Awoingt British Cemetery, Nord, France, Grave I A 8. He was the son of Samuel and Mary Kendall, Laceby, Grimsby and was the husband of Anne M Kendall of Melville, Saskatchewan, Canada. Alfred was born at Immingham and was living at New Cleethorpes at the time he enlisted at Grimsby.

On the 1901 Census he is living with his parents at Cottagers Plot, Laceby, age 14, and is working, like his father, as an agricultural labourer.