Name
Kenneth Herbert Albone
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
19/09/1946
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
2725253
Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MUNSTER HEATH WAR CEMETERY
1. B. 14.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
IN EVERLOVING MEMORY OF OUR DARLING BOY
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, St. Mark’s Church Memorial, Hitchin, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
His Service Number was 2725253 and he is buried in Plot 1, Row B, Grave 14 in Munster Heath War Cemetery, Germany. A private inscription on his Commonwealth War Graves Commission stone reads "In ever loving memory of our darling boy".
He was riding on a motorcycle in Germany on the right-hand side of the road when a British army vehicle came from the opposite direction on the left-hand side of the road and the two collided.
At the end of the Second World War, a number of peace treaties were signed over a period of time. A Supplemental Charter was granted to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission whereby the 31st December 1947 was the final date for the purpose of commemorating Commonwealth war casualties of the Second World War. Hence his commemoration on the Hitchin War Memorial.
He was the son of Herbert and Gertrude Albone of West Mill, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Mrs D. Tomlin - his sister, ‘The War in the Channel Islands - then & now’ by W. G. Ramsey
