Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Alfred Bonner a railway signalman, born 1864 in Lincoln and his wife Frances Mary, born 1866 in Staffs. Alfred was born in 1891 in Bottesford, Leics., his siblings were Herbert, born 1890 and Frederick, born 1897, both his siblings were born in Bottesford, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at 10, Queen Street, Bottesford, Leics. In April 1911 Alfred was employed as a golf professional and was residing in the family home at Station Cottage, Bulwell Forest, Bulwell, Notts., together with his father a railway station master, and his mother and siblings, Herbert and Frederick.