AA Ball – “He was liked by everyone and has left a gap in their lives”
Alfred Ball’s war got off to something of a slow start. The battalion, stationed on The Strand in August 1914 was moved to Bedmond (near Hemel Hempstead) and then Watford before mobilisation to France in March 1915. Alfred appears not to have always travelled with them to the front line according to De Ruvigny’s roll…