Eastleigh

Sergt. G Alford (Devons), whose wife and child reside at Eastleigh has qualified as an Instructor of Musketry and the Lewis Machine Gun. He has also recently won a certificate for bombing.
Sergt Alford proceeded to India in January 1916 and afterwards to Mesopotamia, taking part in the advance for the relief of Knt. For the past eighteen months he has been in India on account of ill health.
Gazette article dated 20 August 1918