Name
Albert French
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/04/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
13629
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 28-29
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was born in Hitchin. His home was at 4, Biggin Lane, Hitchin and he was the eldest son of Maria French and the late Arthur George French.
Wartime Service
Albert, joined up in September 1914 and was initially in the Royal Field Artillery. Later he was moved to the Bedfords and given Regimental Number 13629. He was posted to the 6th Battalion and was killed in action in France, having been shot through the heart by a sniper when going out to an advanced position.
The Battalion took over a line of trenches in the Rossignol Wood sector with three Companies in the front line and one in support on the 1st April 1918 and remained there until the 9th April. The casualties during the period were 32 other ranks killed, 70 wounded, 35 gassed and 4 died of wounds although no major engagement was in progress.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 28 & 29 of the Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
