Name
Albert Edward Warner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/10/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
42635
Worcestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 5 A and 6 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar, Not on the North Mymms memorials
Pre War
Albert Edward Warner was born in Swanley Bar, Herts in 1892 to Frederick Warner, builders labourer and Mary Ann (nee Hills).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Albert, Ethel (born 1895), Ernest (born 1898), and Doris (born 1901 were living at 4 Osborne Cottages, Little Heath, North Mimms. On the 1911 census Albert was working at a nursery (garden) and living with his parents, Ernest, Doris, May (born 1904), Elsie (born 1908 and Lily (born 1911) at 4 Osborne Cottages, Little Heath.
Albert married Maude M Garner in 1915 (berkhampstead District). Their son Albert Frederick was born in late 1915 (Amersham District).
Wartime Service
Albert was enlisted at Gerrard’s Cross while resident in Denham, Buckinghamshire. No Service Record was found.
He may have been called forward under the Derby Scheme optioning for the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry with the service number 22990 probably in Jan 1916. However he was transferred to the Worcester Regiment as Private 42635 and joined them in the field as part of 24 Brigade 8th Division in the Somme Sector.
Albert was killed in action on 27 Oct 1916 in the front line near Gueudecourt during a later phase of the Battle of The Somme. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £36s 7d was paid to his widow Maude also a pension of 18s 9d for herself and son.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Martin Cope
