Name
Albert Victor Russell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/02/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
PO 17637
Royal Marine Light Infantry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RICKMANSWORTH (CHORLEYWOOD ROAD) CEMETERY
GG. 3. 8.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial. St. Mary's Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in Rickmansworth 19th October 1894. son of Albert and Elizabeth Russell of 96 Norfolk Road, Rickmansworth.
In the 1911 census he was living at 76 Fernleigh Street, Watford.
His father Albert Edward was a furniture dealer. His mother Mary Elizabeth was 40. Albert was 15 and assisting in the business. He had a younger brother Horace William and a younger sister Ivy Elizabeth.
He enlisted on 1st September 1914.
Wartime Service
Embarked on RM Brigade (Deal Bn), 20/11/14 – 23/11/15 Mediterranean Expeditionary Force (Dardanelles), 28/4/15 - 8/9/15 sick from disease, 9/9/15-9/10/15 MEF then invalided to UK. 24/11/15 -1 8/2/16 Portsmouth Div. until his death on the 18 February 1916..
At the time of Albert's death his father was living at 96 Watford Road, Rickmansworth.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Robert and Sally Williams
