Hello, i'm Will Cremers from The Netherlands. I live near a town called Venray, that's in the south of our small country. In Venray there is the so called Venray War Cemetery. On this cemetery are resting 692 British Heroes as we call them. Now the local people from Venray area had the opportunity to adopt one or more of these graves at Venray War Cemetery. Now since two months all of the graves are adopted by the locals to take care of and make sure these Heroes will never be forgotten because they died for our freedom. I adopted one of the graves and the soldiers name was Alfred Williams, killed in action in 1944, age 25. he was one of the Green Howards from Yorkshire. Son of Daniel and Hannah Williams from Grove Hill. They lived at 35 Rosedale Avenue in Middlesbrough . Alfred was born on 16/09/1919, he had a sister Esther and a brother Kenneth. It seems that Esther married to a Charles Albert Porritt and their children where: Albert, Ian, Shirley and June. There is a marriage record for a Shirley Porritt to a Thomas W Jones in 1965. A 2021 electoral register gives a Thomas W Jones and a Shirley Jones living in Middlesbrough> ( adress is known ). I did send a letter to this adress, but no reply. Now i'm trying everything to find relatives of Alfred Williams the Hero from Middlesbrough so i can give the grave of this soldier a face. CAN YOU HELP PLEASE!!!!!!
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Here's a photograph of Alfred Williams ( our Hero from The Green Howards ) and
medals and his nametags
Hello, i'm waiting for some more information. as soon as i get this, i will inform you oke??
Hi Will, do you gave any update in your search!!!
I have more than wonderful news. The TeessideLive got 3 responses of Alfred's relatives. Hope to get in contact soon. They are searching for a photograph of him.
I will find out if there are more soldiers of the Green Howards on Venray cemetery and will get back to this forum.
I'm so happy we finally found his relatives.
Take care.
Will
Hello Friends,
There is also placed an article on TeessideLive about Alfred Williams.. ( Teesside news )
@ John van Boolen your name sounds Dutch ?????
What a heartwarming reply's !!! It makes me more determined to find information about Alfred Williams and his family. THANKS !!!!
Hi Will a few comments from our Pages
Fm. Alan Jones....You are one special man amongst all your special people and from my heart thank you for what you and all your village have done for our fallen ..I too am an Ex Green Howard and wished I could help you in your quest but I'm sure there are people that can help you more than I can ...good luck in your search XIX
Fm. John Van Boolen... Hi Will, I'm afraid I can't help in your search but just to say many many thanks to you and the good people of Venray, it's heartening to know there are good people around. Ex Green Howard XIX.
Fm Keith Holsworth..A very special man (Will) and a very special village (Venray) I’m sorry I can not help in your quest but good luck in all you do, hope you get help from someone. An Ex Green Howard XIX
Will, a few friends who live in Middlesbrough have made some suggestions as how to help you, I'm living in Northern Ireland so unable assist, maybe Eric could relay the information onto you!! Good Luck.! XIX
Hi Will, I hope you are successful in finding relatives of Alfred and would like to say a Big thankyou to you and all your fellow countrymen for looking after our Fallen Heroes, it is very much appreciated especially from the Green Howard Band of Brothers! Keep up the good work you do!! 👍👏👏XIX
hi. Have copied you post onto Green Howards facebook pages. hopefully through them you may get help