Name
Albert Edward Wedgerfield
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
112397
Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Albert Wedgerfield was born in the winter of 1889 at Berkhamsted. He was the younger of two sons born to Charles and Sarah Wedgerfield. At the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at the High Street at Berkhamsted, where Charles worked as a General Labourer. By the 1901 Census Charles had died and Sarah had married George Brient. George and Sarah had two more children, a son and a daughter in 1896 and 1900, and in the 1901 Census the new family was recorded living at Westwick Row near Leverstock Green.
By the time of the 1911 Census Albert had moved from the family home and lived as a Boarder at the house of William and Annie Botwright and their two sons at 26 Breakspear Road, Abbots Langley. Albert was employed as a Paper Packer by a Paper Manufacturer, presumably John Dickinson Ltd.
Albert was recorded for the first time in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in June 1915, serving with the Army Service Corps (ASC). His Medal Roll indicated that he was sent to France on 26th September 1915.
In December 1917 the Parish Magazine noted that Albert was reported sick or wounded, and his Medal Roll Index confirmed that he was Discharged “No longer physically fit for War Service” on 11th June 1918.
Albert Wedgerfield survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly service number 42397. Discharged
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org