Name
Albert Beach
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/04/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
69682
Royal Fusiliers *1
17th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY
XX1X.J.2
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
North Mymms Village Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, North Mymms, North Mymms Memorial Hall Memorial, Welham Green Not on the Colney Heath memorials, Not on the St Albans memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Roestock
Pre War
Born 1899 in Roestock, North Mymms, the 1911 census shows Albert living with his widowed Mother Eliza, his Brothers, William, Arthur, Walter, Jessie, Leonard and sisters, Hilda and Gracey all in 4 rooms at Blue Houses Roestock Lane.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Colney Heath (prob mre likely Roestock) and was living in St Albans when he enlisted in Watford.
Wartime Service
Formerly 17832, T.R. Battalion
Albert enlisted in February 1917 into the Royal Artillery and then transferred, first to the Army Service Corp and then the Royal Fusiliers, arriving in France in January 1918.
He was severely wounded in April 1917 by a gunshot wound in the right thigh, dying in the 1st Canadian General Hospital Etaples of pneumonia.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Poplar and Stepney Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Mike Allen
