Jersey Company Member Record
 
Alfred Joseph Moisan
Month Joined:
February 1915
Age (1915)
Religion
Jersey Militia Unit
Rank (1915)
Royal Irish Rifles No.
Hampshire Regt. No.
21 Church of England East Battalion Rifleman 4250 N/A
Personal History    
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Family background uncertain. Prior to the war he lived near Grouville Railway Station. Reportedly one of a number of brothers who served during the First World War.

Called 'Fred', after training in Ireland and Aldershot he went to the front with the Jersey Company in December 1915. Promoted to Lance-Sergeant, he served through 1916 until September. Badly wounded in that month during the fighting at Guillemont and Ginchy and evacuated for treatment at the Ninian Park Hospital in Cardiff. Having lost an arm, he was left unfit for military service and discharged from the Army in May 1917.

One of the founding committee members of the Contingent Association, immediately after the war he lived at Bon Air, St Saviour.
In August 1926, he returned to Belgium and France as part of an official Jersey Company party attending the unveiling of memorials to the 16th (Irish) Division.

 

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