Name
Albert Victor Fox
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Rifle Brigade
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 16 B and 16 C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial
Central Methodist Church Memorial, Letchworth
Pre War
Born Bradford, Yorkshire, son of Stevenson and Sabina Fox, of Bradfort(sic); husband of Ethel Fox, of 45, Beatty Avenue, Perth, West Australia. Arrived Letchworth April 1909. Lived at 141 Baldock Road, Letchworth – Manager at Letchworth Model Diaries. He married Ethel in February 1911 and they had three children Stephenson, Margaret and Charles Warneford and enlisted in to the Bedfordshire Yeomanry (652) 1st March 1911 in Biggleswade, while he worked as a dairyman and lived in Baldock Road, Letchworth. His wife lived at 31 Station Road, Letchworth and had a brother living in Baldock Road, Letchworth. She was informed of his death by Lt R S Purdy by letter, who was himself killed two days after Albert. He reported that Albert had been buried. In another letter was sent to Albert’s brother at The Rectory, Kirkby Thore, Penrith on October 23rd by Serjeant H P Walton it was suggested that he had been killed in one of the German trenches.
Wartime Service
Left for France 9th June 1915. Formerly Corporal in the Bedfordshire Yeomanry, commissioned 30th April 1916 and posted to the 10th Battalion Rifle Brigade 20th May 1916. He died in a German trench and Sarjeant H P Walton wrote to his father on 23rd October 1916 at The Rectory, Kirby Thore Penrith to tell him of the death His died in the same day as hs company commander Formerly T/4/159773, RASC and 41920 (poss 419920) Royal Irish Fusiliers 1st Bn
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
