Alfred Diamond

Rifleman Abraham Diamond, who served as Alfred Diamond, was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1893, in Whitechapel, the son of Hyman, a mackintosh maker by trade, and Rachel Diamond (née Fox), of Manchester and Russia, respectively. At the time of the 1911 Census, Diamond was working as a photo enlargement canvasser while living with his family at 34 Smith Street, Stepney.
Aged 23, Diamond died on 2 December 1917 while serving on the Western Front with the 16th (Service) Battalion (Church Lads Brigade), The King's Royal Rifle Corps. He had married Nancy W. Parker in 1916.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Diamond, Alfred, cwgc.org. Retrieved 16 November 2016.
Category:1893 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
Category:Rifleman