235073, Private, Albert George LEWINGDON
Aged 36
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Born in Peckham, London in Q2-1881 [Camberwell 1d:840] to Albert and Elizabeth LEWINGDON (née BETTS) previously living on Oxfordshire.
1891 census...Albert [9] was at the Gasworks, Mentmore,Bucks., with his father Albert [48], gas works manager, born Great Haseley, Oxon; his mother Elizabeth [50] born Worcester, and his sister Elizabeth [12] born London. 1901 census...Albert [19] was a footman at Palace House, Newmarket. His parents and sisters Elizabeth [22] and Hannah [24] were still in Mentmore. In 1908, in Bishops Stortford, he married Ann Matilda Sophie ROBINSON. 1911 census...Albert [29] was still at Palace House, Newmarket. He and Ann were living at 8 All Saints Terrace, All Saints Road, Newmarket with their daughter Violet [1], born Newmarket. His parents and elder brother William Francis [40] had also moved to Newmarket, to Park Lane Albert and Ann had three daughters, Violet Hannah(1910); Sybil (born 1913 died in infancy) and Annie C (1916). At the time of his death they were at Palace Cottage, Palace Street, Newmarket |
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"Third Ypres" (or Passchendaele) became notorious for conditions that transformed the terrain of shell holes and trenches into a quagmire of mud. Ten of the
King's (Liverpool)Regiment's battalions were active in the first stage, the Battle of Pilkem Ridge (31 July – 2 August). Six belonged to the 55th Division,
situated in the Wieltje sector, north of the Liverpool Pals. The territorial battalions overcame their first and second objectives, but progress was difficult.
Confusion prevailed during the 18th King's and 2nd Wiltshires nocturnal advance through Sanctuary Wood. The Pals battalions had to consolidate in front of
the 30th Division's initial objective. The King's losses accumulated, surpassing 1,800 by the 3rd, with the supporting 1/8th's casualties the heaviest at
18 officers and 304 other ranks. The day Albert died, the King's Liverpool Regiment had 486 killed, 45 from Albert's battalion of which only 4 have identified graves, the other 41 are named on the Menin Gate in Ypres. In fact of the Regiment's total, 401 out of the 486 have no known grave |
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