Name
Albert Edward Warner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/10/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42635
Worcestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the North Mymms memorials
Pre War
Born in Swanley Bar, Herts in 1892. In the 1911 census he was working at a nursery and living with his parents Frederick and Mary Ann Warner and five younger siblings at 4 Osborne Cottages, Little Heath. He married Maude M Garner and their son Albert Frederick was born in late 1915.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Gerrard’s Cross while resident in Denham, Buckinghamshire. Original service number 22990 with The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry suggests he probably enlisted in January 1916. Killed in action 27 October 1916 in the front line near Gueudecourt during a later phase of the Battle of The Somme.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
