Category: Conscientious Objector
Rank: Private
Regiment or Ship: Multiple - See First World War Experience for details
Service Number(s): G14011, W61209, 61309, & 171387
Occupation: Luggage Porter
Date of Birth: 1882
Place of Birth: Eastbourne, East Sussex
Date of Death: August 1948
Place of Death: Bexhill, East Sussex
Place of Burial / Memorials:
Bexhill Cemetery – buried 31 August 1948 in plot DBD15
Address: 19 Wickham Avenue, Bexhill
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Family Information
Parents:
Edward Bignell, b. 1844, in Eastbourne, Sussex
Jane Bignell (née Barnes), b.1849, in Ladbury, Somerset
Siblings
Rosanna Bignell, b.1875, in Brighton, Sussex
Percy Edward Bignell, b.1877, in Eastbourne, Sussex, married Ava Margaretta S. Pigg, in Eastbourne, in 1902. They don’t appear to have had any children.
Florence Bignell, b.1879, in Eastbourne, Sussex
Bertie Mark Bignell, b.1881, in Eastbourne, Sussex, doesn’t appear to have married
Frederick Walter Bignell, b.1887, in Eastbourne, Sussex
Stanley Bignell, b.1890, in Eastbourne, Sussex
Cecil Gorden Bignell, b. 1891, in Eastbourne, Sussex
Alfred Horace Bignell married Edith Nellie Kent, on 03-08-1918 (from his Army records). They had two children:
Dorothy E. Bignell, born in 1919, in Bexhill, Sussex,
Horace G. Bignell, born in 1924, in Bexhill, Sussex – married Marie O. Askew, in the district of Hastings, in 1949.
Most of Alfred’s siblings seem never to have had children but more research would be needed
First World War Experience
C0003 (1) BIGNELL Alfred Horace (Private) Army Service Records
Alfred was a conscientious objector but appeared before just one tribunal.
Alfred served in several different corps but all involved labour in a support role –
- 16-08-1916 – Unit 672 (HS) Equipment Company – Labour Corps
- 18-08-1916 – Royal Sussex Infantry Workshop
- 01-02-1917 – King’s Liverpool Regiment Infantry Workshop
- 28-04-1917 – Labour Corps – 309 Company
- 23-06-1917 – Labour Corps – 365 Company
- 16-09-1917 – Labour Corps – 670 (H.S.) Employ Company
- 22-12-1917 – Labour Corps – 672 (H.S.) Employ Company
His service with the Army was uneventful and produced no comment from his officers.
He survived the war but there are no details as to where he lived or what he did afterwards.
Additional Information
Other Addresses:
- 99, Tideswell road, Eastbourne (1891 census)
- 34, Cavendish Place, Eastbourne (1901 census)
- 7, Devonshire Road, Bexhill (1911 census)
Tribunal Reports
C0003 (2) BIGNELL Alfred Horace (Private) Tribunal Reports