 He was there between 1910 and 1914, becoming a House Prefect.Whilst at Gresham's School, Alfred had been in the Junior Division of the Officers' Training Corps from January 1910 to August 1914, when, with war apparent, he joined the British Army.On 10 December 1915, he filed an "application for appointment to a temporary commission in the regular army for the period of the war".