Name
Albert Charles Porter
6 May 1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/09/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3862
Essex Regiment
1st/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
7TH FIELD AMBULANCE CEMETERY
Sp. Mem. A. 52.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Albert Charles Porter was born in 1894 in Barking, Essex, the son of Albert and Ruth Porter. On the 1901 Census he was living with his family on 60 Larfield Road, Lewisham, London, where his father was working as a house furnisher. By 1911 they had moved to 63 Park Grove Road, Leytonstone, where Albert was working as a house decorator's assistant.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Westcliff on Sea, Essex and served in the Essex Regiment from 10 August 1915.
He died from wounds received in action.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £3 3s 4d. His father, Mr A J Porter of 29 St George's Park Avenue, Westcliff-on-Sea, ordered his headstone inscription: "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
