Name
Albert C Garment
1899
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Albert Garment was born on 18 July 1889, the son of Edwin and Lizzie Garment and was baptised on 1 September 1889 in Berkhamsted, Herts. He was one of nine children, although two died in infancy.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at High Street, Northchurch where his father was working as a chimney sweep. They had moved to 79 Gossoms End, Northchurch by 1901.
He emigrated to Canada from Liverpool in 1910 on the 'Canada' from the Dominion Steamship Line and described his occupation as Baker.
He married Blanche Richards on 4 March 1914 at St Lawrence, New York, USA. His address on enlistment was given as 71 Sherbrooke Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada where he was working as a coachman.
His father was then residing at 23 Mill Street, Berkhamsted, England.
Wartime Service
Albert attested on 21 July 1915 to serve with 60th Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force. He suffered from appendicitis and was admitted to hospital where he had an operation on 30 October 1915 with three weeks recovery. He was then diagnosed with syphilis in December 1915 and recommended for discharge as medically unfit.
He attested again on 28 August 1917 at Victoria, British Columbia and gave his next of kin as his sister Mabel of 23 Mill Street, Berkhamsted. He served with the Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force which, in 1918. was sent to Russia as part of an Allied intervention to support Russian government forces against Bolshevik revolutionaries.
He arrived back in Canada on the Empress of Russia on 13 May 1919 and was discharged on 12 June 1919. He does not seem to have died in service and survived the war, however his date of death is unknown.
Additional Information
Not found in the CWGC records.
N.B. He is named on St Peters Church Memorial as Cpl. Albert C Garment, Can. Police.
His wife Blanche received payments in from October 1918 until his return in May 1919, however the cheques were returned unclaimed.
Brother to Leonard Garment who served briefly with the Hertfordshire Regiment but was discharged on medical grounds suffering from pulmonary thrombosis and died in Berkhamsted on 2 July 1916, aged 28. Also brother to James Garment who died 11 March 1918 from pulmonary thrombosis but whose place of burial is unknown.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.bac-lac.gc.ca