Alfred Frank Tredgold (5 November 1870 – 17 September 1952) was a British neurologist and psychiatrist and expert in Amentia.
He was born at 49 Liversage Street in Derby on 5 November 1870, the son of Joseph Tredgold, a builder's foreman, and his wife Bessie Smith.
[1] He worked as a GP for two years then in 1905 as Physician to the Littleton Home for Defective Children gave evidence to the Royal Commission on the Feeble Minded.
He served with the 2nd Battalion, Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey) in Gallipoli, Egypt and Sinai.
The authorities rejected his offer to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps advising on mental health as the usefulness of this was yet to be recognised.