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I believe that the first name is wrong on the memorial (no others seem to fit) and it is the person below:
NAME: Blackman, Albert Arthur (Alfred on memorial)
RANK: Private
UNIT: London Regiment
BATTALION ETC: 1/14th Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER: 514768
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH: Killed in action 17th August 1917
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
OTHER INFORMATION: Age 26. Enlisted 7th December 1915. Son of Edward Blackman & Emily Blackman of 61 Sarsfeld Rd., Balham, London. Husband of Edith Fidler (formerly Blackman), of Yateley, Hants (CWGC). On pension card address is Edith Blackman, c/o Mrs Hilton, Mill Lane, Yately. On another pension card address same as parents above, then remarried became Fidler, and address is as on other pension card. In soldiers papers there is a letter with the address nr. Plough Inn, Yateley for wifes address (1922). Married 30th August 1914 at Parish Church, Tooting. Remarried to Herbert Fidler 17th May 1919 at All Saints Church, Fleet. Born: Tooting. Enlisted: Woolwich. Resided: Balham.