Albert William Lee

Name

Albert William Lee

Conflict

First World War

Date of Death / Age

20/08/1917
32

Rank, Service Number & Service Details

Rifleman
B/200960
Rifle Brigade
9th Bn.

Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards

British War and Victory medals

Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country

THE HUTS CEMETERY
III. D. 4.
Belgium

Headstone Inscription

Not Researched

UK & Other Memorials

Not on the Bengeo memorials, Not on the Hertford memorials*1

Pre War

Born in 1885, in Weedon, Bucks, to parents William and Sarah, he had a brother John Henry and a sister Ellen Louisa and in 1891 they were living in Weedon and his father was employed as a garden labourer.

The 1911 census shows him living as a lodger at 7 Belle Lane, Eton College and he is employed as a servant at the college. Albert married Emily Annie Victoria Wild on 29th August 1914, at St John’s Church, Kensal Green, Paddington, at that time he was living at Baldwins Shore, Eton College and employed as a butler.

Wartime Service

Formerly M/2/269596 RASC. Albert enlisted at Grove Park in Kent and after training his unit was sent to France on 19th May 1915. They fought at the battle of Hooge and were the first British unit to be attacked by flamethrowers.

During the Somme campaign they fought at Delville Wood and Flers-Courcelette. In 1917 they fought on the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line and then at the first and second battles of the Scarpe during the Arras offensive and at Passchendaele. William was wounded during heavy shelling of his unit’s position whilst in the front line and died later while with 42 Field Ambulance.

Additional Information

Albert is also commemorated on a family Hertford Corporation Cemetery. His inscription reads:

Acknowledgments

Terry & Glenis Collins