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Albert Henry CORNISH

Albert Henry CORNISH(Bert)

1895 – 1917 · Corsham, Wiltshire
Father: Edwin Ernest Albert CORNISH · Mother: Naomi Ann GAISFORD
🌺 War Dead
👶Birth
07/12/1895
🏛️ National Trust founded
Corsham, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘGillian Cornish
🏠Lived (6)
1901
🏛️ Second Boer War
Birchanger Farm, Bratton Road, Westbury, Wiltshire, BA13 4TA 📍 ⓘ1901 Census 📎 Census

In 1901 he was staying with his Grandfather

🏠Lived (16)
1911
🏛️ National Insurance Act
38 High Street, Tewkesbury, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘ1911 Census 📎 Census
💼Occupation (19)
1914
🏛️ First World War
Butcher
38 High Street, Tewkesbury, Wiltshire 📍 ⓘGillian Cornish
💼Occupation (20)
1915
Private 242152 of Worcestershire Regiment 10th Bn.

His British War Medal is owned by a Worcestershire Regiment medal collector and will on his death be donated to the Worcestershire Regiment.

✝️Death (22)
20/09/1917
Passchendaele, Ypres, West Vlaanderen, Belgium 📍
Commemorated in Tewkesbury at the Cross and in the Abbey, and in Twyning
Killed in Action ⓘGillian Cornish
Obituary 📎 Memorial
🪦Burial
20/09/1917
Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Leper, Flanders, Belgium 📍
Buried on the battlefield and body not recovered or identified but remembered with honour at Panel 75 to 77 ⓘfindagrave.com
Obituary 📎 Grave

The headstone of his parents grave at Earls Croom in Worcestershire reads:

In Loving Memory
of
EDWIN ERNEST CORNISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
AUGUST 21ST. 1921
AGED 52 YEARS.

ALSO OF ALBERT HENRY
SON OF THE ABOVE
KILLED IN ACTION SEPT.R 20TH 1917
AGED 21 YEARS.

"WAITING IN A HOLY STILLNESS
WRAPT IN SLEEP."

NAOMI ANN CORNISH,
BELOVED WIFE AND MOTHER
AGED 95 YEARS
RE-UNITED APRIL 16TH 1964.

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