Name
Albert Edward Cherry
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14844
Norfolk Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GROVE TOWN CEMETERY, MEAULTE
I.H.38
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St. Martin’s Church Memorial, Knebworth (New), St. Martin’s Church Roll of Honour, Knebworth (New), St. Martin’s Church Framed Memorial, Knebworth (New), We are not aware of any Potters Heath memorial
Pre War
Born in Potters Heath, Codicote, Welwyn on 22 April 1895 to Edward and Charlotte Cherry. Baptised in Welwyn on 2 June 1895.
On the 1891 & 1901 Censuses, the family were living at Woolmer Green, Welwyn but by 1911 his mother had died and he was living with his widowed father and two sisters in Rose Cottages, Pondcroft Road, Knebworth, nr Stevenage, Herts and was working as a Painter. Enlisted in Hitchin, Herts.
Wartime Service
Albert arrived in France on the 30th August 1915 and served on the Western Front with his Battalion for just over 12 months.
He died of wounds on the 26th September 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme, and is buried in the Grove Town Cemetery, Meaulte, France.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £8 10s awarded to his father Edward along with pay owing of £12 6s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson, Brenda Palmer
