Name
Albert Edward Haynes
12 March 1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/06/1916
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
3/8156
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn., attached Trench Mortar Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CARNOY MILITARY CEMETERY
Sp. Mem. 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT (Special Memorial)
UK & Other Memorials
Little Berkhamsted War Memorial
Pre War
Albert Edward Haynes was born in Little Berkhamsted on 12 March 1887, the son of Tandrew and Alice Haynes, and was baptised at Little Berkhamsted on 15 May 1887. He was one of fourteen children but two died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living in Little Berkhamsted where his father was working as a journeyman carpenter. By 1901 they were in Epping Green, Little Berkhamsted and Albert was working as a house painter.
Having moved out of the family home, Andrew was listed on the 1911 Census living on his own, aged 24, in Little Berkhamsted, a few doors away from the Five Horse Shoes Public House, and working as a house painter
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted at Hertford and his service number suggests he had been a member of the Bedfordshire Militia and became a soldier of the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, in September 1914.
He was promoted to the rank of Lance Sergeant, followed by Sergeant and landed in France on 26 July 1915. At some point was attached to the 54th Trench Mortar Battery.
He was killed in action on 27/28* June 1916 in the trenches at Carnoy during the preparation for the opening attack of the Battle of the Somme.
Albert is buried in Carnoy Military Cemetery, France. He is one of 17 soldiers believed to be buried in the cemetery to whom a Special Memorial is dedicated with the inscription THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £11. There was no pay owing. His mother received a pension of 5 shillings a week (later transferred to his father).
Brother to Horace who served with the Bedfordshire Regiment from 2 September 1914, was promoted to Sergeant and survived the war.
*N.B. CWGC has his date of death as 28 June 1916, however other military records show 27 June 1916 and CWGC original documents show handwritten alterations to the date from 28 to 27 June and vice versa!
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Martin Cope, Jim Maynard
