Other Information:Albert joined the Territorial Force on 13th February 1912, he was seventeen years old, a 'Cutter ?' by trade, and living at 190 Woodbridge Road, Ipswich, Suffolk. He entered the war in Egypt on 1st April 1915. On 26 July 1915, Albert was wounded in action at Dardanelles with a gun shot wound to his right leg. He was initially admitted to 11 Casualty Clearing Station and then hospital, before being evacuated back to the UK on H.M.H.S. Goorkha, where he spent the next 8 months recovering. He re-entered the war on 9th May 1916 in France and was based at Rouen. He was wounded again in the field on 16th April 1917, but returned to duty the following day.
He then re-joined 88th (1st East Anglian) Field Ambulance in France after they had returned from Galipolli, and he spent the remainder of the war on the Western Front with them. Albert was disembodied on demobilsation on 15 August 1919. [Information source: Service record]
the son of Albert and Amelia Lord.
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