Name
Albert Joy
1879
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/09/1918
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
31939
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETRETAT CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
II. F. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
SADLY MISSED BY HIS WIFE & CHILDREN PARENTS & FRIENDS R.I.P.
UK & Other Memorials
Langleybury Village Memorial, Hunton Bridge, Not on Kings Langley Memorial
Pre War
Albert Joy was born in 1879 at Gussage St Michael, Woodlands, nr Wimborne, Dorset, the son and eldest child of Robert and Mary Joy, and was baptised at Gussage St Michael, Dorset on 2 March 1879.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at 96 Cottage, Knowl Hill Farm, Woodlands, Wimborne where his father was working as a carter. They had moved to West Parley, Dorset by 1891 and again to Savages Farm, Clarendon, Wiltshire by 1901 at which time Albert was working as a cattleman on a farm.
Albert married Ada White in Broughton, Hampshire on 26 December 1903 (occupation then groom/gardener) and he was then living at Broughton. They had five children, Gladys (1906) Lilian (1907), Dorothy (1909) and Betty (1914) but son Albert, born 1916, died the following year.
By the 1911 Census they had moved to Hillside Lodge, Kings Langley, Abbots Langley, Herts, and Albert was working as a gardener domestic.
His widow later lived at Upper Highway, Hunton Bridge, Kings Langley on pension records.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford and joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, serving with the 2nd Battalion.
He died of wounds on 8 September 1918, aged 41, and is buried in Etretat Churchyard Extension, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £8 10s and pay owing of £4 14s 4d. She also received a pension of £1 13 9d a week for herself and her four daughters.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
