Name
Albert William Chalkley
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/06/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
553
1st King Edwards Horse
Attached Northumberland Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
Q. III. G. II.
France
Headstone Inscription
Albert has no family inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
St Ippolyts Village Memorial, Roll of Honour, St Ippolyts Church, We are not aware of any memorial in Gosmore
Pre War
Albert William Chalkley was born in 1892, in Gosmore, Herts, son of George William Chalkley a Horse keeper on a Farm and Agnes Chalkley (nee Day). One of eleven children two died in infancy, John (B1891), Minnie (B1898), Emily (B1900), Alice Rose (B1901), Percy (B1903), Frederick (B1905), Florence (B1908) and Dorothy (B1910).
He was Baptised on the 10th July 1892, in the Parish Church of St Ippolyts, Herts.
1901 Census shows Albert aged 8, living with his parents, brother John and 3 sisters, in Gosmore, Herts.
1911 Census shows Albert aged 18, living with his 3 brothers and 3 sisters, in Gosmore, Herts. His occupation is given as a Groom Domestic.
He had been employed by Mr English Harrison K.C. of Gosmore before the war.
Wartime Service
On the out break of War Albert volunteered, enlisting in August 1914 at Alexander Palace, London, into the Special Cavalry Reserve, 1st king Edward’s Horse, with the service number 553. He disembarked in France on the 2nd June 1915, with "A" Squadron. He was present at the Battle of Albert. (1st -13th July 1916).
The cause of his death was heart disease, he died in a hospital in Rouen, France, on 12th July 1918. At the time of his death he was attached to the Northumberland Hussars.
An article in the Hertfordshire Express of the 22nd of June 1918 reports that Albert "acted as Officer's servant both in this country and in France for Colonel Reynolds, in whose service he was before the outbreak of war. His death took place suddenly with the family having no warning of serious illness."
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £12-14s-8d, Pay Owing and £18-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his father George William Chalkley.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne, Derry Warners
Stuart Osborne
