Name
Albert Gurdler (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
5759
Prince of Wales’ Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians)
7th Bn., attached 47th Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 78.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Town Memorial St Mary’s Church, Rickmansworth
St Peter's C of E Primary School, Mill End, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in 1889 in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire son of Henry and Sarah Ann Gurdler and living in Church Lane, Mill End, Rickmansworth in 1911 as a labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Watford formerly 6584, Bedfordshire Regiment M.M., entered France on 11 Nov 1914 and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Brother of Private William Gurdler who was killed in action on 28 Mar 1918 and of Private James Henry Gurdler who was killed in action on 4 Sep 1916 and of Private Horace Gurdler who died on 12 Nov 1918. All are commemorated on these memorials.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
