Name
Albert (Bert) Henry (poss Henry Albert) Isaac
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/06/1916
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
15933
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ASHFORD CEMETERY, KENT
7125
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
Stained Glass Window, Hitchin Boys Grammar School, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, St Ippolyts Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church
Pre War
Henry was born in 1897, in St Ippolyts, Herts. Son of Henry Isaac, one of three children, two daughters and a son.
1901 census records Henry aged 4, living with his widower father, three uncles, an aunt and his sister Florence 6 in Brook End, St Ippolyts, Herts. 1911 Census now records him as Albert aged 14, at school, living with his father, stepmother Elizabeth, three uncles, sisters Florence 16, and Nellie 12, at Brook End, St Ippolyts, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on the 10th November 1915, he was posted to the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, in Bedford, on the 12th February 1915. His Attestation Papers show he enlisted under the name Bert Isaac, with the service number 15933.
His papers show that he served at home from 12th February 1915 to 2nd November 1915. He disembarked in France on the 3rd November 1915. Returning home on the 3rd March1916, due to ill health, he was discharged unfit to serve on the 9th June 1916. It is believed he was suffering from TB. He died in Ashford, Kent on the 25th June 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Stuart Osborne
