No.5831090, Corporal, Albert Harry CLEMENTS
Aged 24
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Albert Harry Edwards was born in Soham (Newmarket Q4-1919 3B:860), son of Herbert and Lily EDWARDS (née FINCHAM), one time of Millcroft, Soham.
In the 1939 register, at Horse Fen Gate House, Cherry Tree Lane, Soham were his father Herbert [9-8-1884] railway porter; mother Lily [15-7-1885]; brothers Ernest W [20-4-1910] general labourer, Stanley [16-2-1917] farm worker and Frank [15-3-1926]. There are 3 closed records. He married Phyllis Mary HITCH in 1940 (Cambridge Q3) |
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The 1st Suffolks were part of the 8th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division and were involved in the operation to bottle up the Germans at Falaise.
It was a lull between Operation Totalise which failed in it's objective and Operation Tractable which did eventually close the gap, but not before a
great number of Germans had escaped the net. Albert's was the only death in the battalion on the 12th. |
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