Name
Albert Edward Munt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
269647
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Wheathamstead Village Memorial, Folly Methodist Chapel Window, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Albert Edward was born in Wheathampstead in 1886 to George Munt, a , and Rhoda (nee Harrowell).
On the 1891 Census the family consisting of parents, eldest son Jesse (born 18824), Ada (born 1884), Grace (born 1885), Albert, and younger brother Stanley (born 1889) were ling at Cherry Trees, Wheathampstead. On the 1901 Census Albert, was working as a groom, Stanley was a stable boy and Grace were living their parents at Cherry trees. In 1911 Albert married Lillian Florence Bent and on the 1911 Census were living at Batford Road, Harpenden. Albert was working as a general carter. They later lived at Oxford Road Luton. Albert’s parents in 1911 were still living at Cherry Trees along with son Stanley who was a railway signalman.
(Cherry Tree Cottages at the far end of the Folly.)
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted as a Territorial Soldier Private 9638 in the Hertfordshire Regiment. No Service Record was found for Albert thus details of his Service are vague.
He acquired a new Service Number of 269647 when the Territorial Force was renumbered in 1917. He went to join the 1st Herts in the Ypres sector and was present with them when the regiment were in involved in the Battle of Pilckem on the opening day (31 July 1917) of 3rd Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). The Herts Regiment at St Julien were prevented from achieving their objectives on that day by dense wire and fierce German resistance. There were Other Rank casualties of 29 killed, 5 missing (believed killed), 168 wounded or missing and 225 wounded, Albert was one who death was presumed on 31 Jul 1917. Other wounded Pow's of reported that he had several wounds to the leg but that he was left behind when they were taken prisoner.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Valerie Thorning
