Name
Albert Henry Fish
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/203432
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
High Wych Village Memorial, We are not aware of any Allen's Green memorial
Pre War
Albert Henry Fish of Allen's Green was born in 1886, son of Joseph and Ellen and at some point lived in Cambridge Road. In the 1911 census, Albert is recorded as a ‘Bricklayers Labourer’.
Recorded as born in Sawbridgeworth (probably the postal town for Allen's Green) and living there (Allen's Green) when he enlisted in Bedford and joined the Middlesex Regiment aka the Duke of Cambridge's Own.
Wartime Service
He served in the 11th Battalion Middlesex Regiment and in May 1917, this Battalion was attacking German positions as part of the Second Battle of Arras. It was here on 3 May 1917 that Albert Fish was killed aged 31.
He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
His brothers Frank Ernest and Henry Alfred also died.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Theo van der Bilt, Douglas Coe
