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Born-Welling

Enlisted-Woolwich

7th Division, which included the 2nd Royal West Surrey (Queens) battalion of 22 Brigade landed at Zeebrugge on the Belgian coast on 6th October with the intention of assisting the Belgian army in the defence of Antwerp. But the city fell to the Germans before they could reach it so they assisted in the evacuation of the Belgian army to the west before moving westwards themselves to join the British Expeditionary Force at Ypres.

Alfred Warner lost his life on 13th October, 1914 when 2nd Queens marched from Thielt to Roulers but the battalion diary makes no mention of any action on that day, no enemy shell fire and no casualties. His death therefore remains unexplained.