Name
Albert Walter Musk
1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266035
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 135.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Albert Walter Musk was born in 1897 in Hertford, Herts, the son of Albert Edward and Elizabeth Augusta Musk, and one of six children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 6 Bridge Street, Hitchin, where his father's occupation was recorded as a Sergeant Instructor. By 1911 they had moved to Baldock and were living at The Chequers Inn, White Horse Street and his father was then recorded as an army pensioner and innkeeper. Albert was then working as a stable lad.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford and joined the Hertfordshire Regiment, under reg. no. 3530, probably about October 1914. This was later renumbered to 266035.
Albert was found to be missing in action on 23 July 1916 and has no known grave. His name is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £8 and pay owing of £4 3s 6d. Pension cards exist with his father as dependant but no amount of pension is recorded.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
