Albert Charles Gentle
WWII Roll of Honour
By Lynette Wray
Albert Charles Gentle
Military History:
Regiment: Royal Engineers
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service Number: 525915
Date of Enlisting: 28.2.1916
Date of death: Not known
Cemetery/ Memorial: Not known
UK Cemetery/Memorial: St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour
Albert Charles enlisted with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, Regimental Number 3098, on 28th February 1916 and almost immediately was transferred to the Hertfordshire Regiment, a Private, Regimental Number 11199, and was later assigned a new number in the Hertfordshire Regiment, Regimental Number 270981. In December of 1916 he was transferred to the Royal Engineers, Regimental Number 525915, and was mobilised to France in December 1916. On 24 December 1917 he was appointed Lance Corporal, a skilled sapper sawyer, with the 365th Forestry Company, Royal Engineers. He survived the War and was demobilised in February 1919. It is not known when he died.
Albert saw active service on the Western Front and was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal.
He is commemorated on the St Mary’s Church Ashwell Roll of Honour.
Family History:
Date of Birth: 3rd Quarter 1884
Birth Place: Stotfold, Bedfordshire
Residence: Ashwell, Hertfordshire
Marriage: 12.7.1919
Albert Charles was born in Stotfold, Bedfordshire in the 3rd quarter of 1884, the second son of James and Emma (nee Scales). He was a pupil at the Merchant Taylor School in Ashwell, Hertfordshire. The 1911 census shows him as a farm labourer in Ashwell.
Albert married Florence May Abrams in Ashwell, Hertfordshire on 12th July 1919. It is not known if they had children.
It is not known when Albert died.
Commentary:
Name: |
Albert Charles Gentle |
Birth Place: |
Stotfold, Bedfordshire |
Residence: |
Ashwell, Hertfordshire |
Death Date: |
Not known |
Enlistment Place: |
Hitchin, Hertfordshire |
Rank: |
Lance Corporal |
Regiment: |
Royal Engineers |
Battalion: |
365th Forestry Company |
Regimental Number: |
525915 |
Type of Casualty: |
Survived |
Theatre of War: |
Western Europe, France and Flanders |
This page was added on 12/06/2017.