Adey, Albert

Age: 22
Date of birth: 22nd May 1995

Parents: Josiah and Sarah A Adey
Wife: Mary Clare Adey nee Taylor
Address: 8 Garden Row, Chapman Street, Warwick

Occupation:

Albert was born in Aston, Birmingham on 22nd May 1895.

We have found very little about him but know that he married Mary Clare Taylor, a Warwick girl, in Q1 of 1918 in Aston.

The shrine slip, on behalf of his wife, states that he was 26 but it seems that he was probably 22 at the time of his death:

 

Military Service

Rank & Number: Lance Corporal, 8718
Regiment/Service: 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Brigade/Division: 5th Brigade, 2nd Division
Date of death: Wednesday, May 01, 1918
Cause of death/Battle: Killed in action
Commemorated/Buried: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Pas de Calais
Awards: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Commemorated locally at:

Albert enlisted on 29th November 1914 and served in France from that time

 

Contributors

  • Unlocking Warwick Research Group
  • Shrine Application Slip courtesy of Warwickshire County Record Office
  • Cemetery photograph courtesy of CWGC

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