Name  : Alfred Joseph MEADWAY.
Rank & Number : Lance Corporal. 2303.
Service  : 1st /4^th Bn., Dorsetshire Regiment.
Date of Death : Tuesday, 28^th September 1915.
Age  : 28.
Cause of Death : Died of Wounds.
No known grave.
Commemorated : Basra War Cemetery, Iraq.
Reference : Panel 22 and 63.

The Basra Memorial bears the names of more than 40,500 members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.

Alfred Joseph Meadway was both born and living in Maiden Newton at the time he enlisted at Dorchester.