Name
Albert Maunders
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
88553
Manchester Regiment
22nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Albert Maunders was born at Pimlico, near Bedmond in the spring of 1872. He was one of six children (three sons and three daughters) born to Alfred and Hannah Maunders. Alfred Maunders worked as an Agricultural Labourer. Albert married Alice Bennett at Leverstock Green on 14th May 1894, and in the 1901 Census the couple were shown living at Brickfield, Bennetts End, Hemel Hempstead, with two children, and Albert worked as a General Labourer. By the time of the 1911 Census three more children had been born and the family had moved to Nolton’s Cottage at Bedmond. Albert worked as a Farm Labourer.
Albert was 42 years old when War was declared in August 1914. He did not volunteer for service, and would have been too old to be conscripted when conscription was introduced in 1916. It is not known if Albert volunteered later in the War, or was conscripted when the upper age range was increased to 51 years of age in 1918. However he was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in January 1918, serving with the 1st Battalion of the South Staffordshire Regiment.
Albert continued to be recorded in the Roll of Honour serving with the South Staffs through to the end of the War. He was listed in the Absent Voter Records for Autumn 1918, Spring 1919 and Autumn 1919, still serving with the South Staffords, and throughout this period his address was given at Trowley Bottom. Albert’s Medal Roll indicated that at some point near to the end of his period of service, and probably in 1919, he transferred to the 22nd Battalion of the Manchester Regiment.
Albert’s son Herbert was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in March 1917, serving with the 2nd Training Reserve. Although Herbert was reported wounded in December 1917, both he and his father, Albert survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly 41763, 1st Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
