Alfred James Dimes

  General Notes:

Mar 1906 apprenticed to Arthur Charles Bonsall of Bouverie Street, London for 7 years as a letter press apprenticeship printer. Alread was living at 33 Saville Street, Great Portland Street, West London. The apprenticeship was arranged by the Goldsmith Company.
WW1 Private in the Essex Regiment. Overseas in 1916, as a battery runner. Was shot by a sniper and badly wounded in the legs. After that he always used a stout walking stick.
Height 5 foot 1 inches, eyes brown, dark hair.
2 May 1923 made a freeman of the Goldsmith Company. Compositor of 159 Great Titchfield Street, Marylebone, London NW1.
Worked for many years as a compositor on Sporting Life.

Alfred married Adelaide Miriam Osman, daughter of John Osman and Adelaide Miriam Freeman, Q2 1917 in Pancras Registration District. (Adelaide Miriam Osman was born on 22 Dec 1893 in St. Pancras, London, England and died on 2 Feb 1981 in Southend, Essex, England.)