Name
Albert Edward Hays
Searched but not found.
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/07/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
PW/5964
(Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment.
23rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 113 to 115.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Broxbourne memorials
Pre War
We are currently unable to positively identity Private Albert Edwards Hays early life.
He was living in Broxbourne, Herts, when he travelled to Bedford to enlist, posted to the Middlesex Regiment (Duke of Cambridges Own), issued with the service number PW/5964.
Wartime Service
He served on the Western Front and for a short time on the Italian Front. He served with the 1st Battalion, 18th Battalion and finally with 'C' Company, 23rd Battalion, at the time of his death.
He was Killed in Action on 19th July 1918, he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium, to the missing. Panel 113 to 115.
Additional Information
His effects of £17-6-1, pay owing went to his brother
Frederick, his war gratuity of £10, was unissued.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
