Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Eli and Sarah C. Lount of Hallaton, Leics. Before the war Alfred had been a Police Constable. He landed in France on the 27th July 1915. His brother 20744. Lance Corporal Arthur Lount. DCM., served with the York and Lancaster Regiment.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Alfred’s father Eli worked as a general labourer. He had three older siblings and two younger would follow, including Arthur who was eventually to be awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal. After leaving school at age 14, Alfred obtained a job as a stockman on a farm in Monk’s Kirby, Warwickshire. He was obviously dissatisfied with this life because on 1st December 1910, he joined the West Riding Borough Police Force as Constable 896 based in Rotherham and sworn in before the Justices on the next day. It is not known when he joined the Army but it was with the Military Foot Police with service number P/1645. He was sent to France on 27th July 1915. As a “Redcap” lance corporal he would have been employed sorting order out of chaos as streams of troops, horse drawn vehicles, artillery and ambulances all moved along roads destroyed by shell fire and turned into quagmires by the weather. In early 1916 he was invalided home for ten days before returning to France. His service records unfortunately have not survived but at some stage he was transferred to the 1st/7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment with service number 40790 and posted with them to Egypt where they were part of 159th (Cheshire) Brigade fighting the Turks in Sinai and Palestine. They remained there until 31st May 1918 when once more they were shipped to France. They were then to become involved in what was the final German offensive of the War, the Marne Offensive also known as Operation Michael. This was not a surprise attack and was expected. It was a ferocious battle and the casualties were huge but the Germans were not successful. Alfred was killed on 29th July 1918 near Soissons and his body was never recovered. He is commemorated on the memorial in that town and on the war memorials in both Greaseborough, Rotherham and Hallaton.

Information (including photograph) kindly provided by Dennis Kenyon.