TILLEY, Albert
No. 19811, Private, Albert Joseph TILLEY
Aged 19
11th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Killed in Action on Sunday 26th August, 1917
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Born in Snailwell in Q2-1898,[Newmarket 3b:522] eldest son of Reuben and Ann Elizabeth Tilley (née WOODHOUSE) of 10 Victoria Terrace, Laceys Lane, Exning. 1901 census...At 10 Victoria Terrace were Albert [3] with his father Reuben [35] bricklayers labourer born Exning, his mother Ann E [29] born Snailwell and brother Reuben J [1] born Exning 1911 census...At 7 Croft Cottages, Exning were Albert [13] his widowed mother and his brother Reuben, and sister Rhoda [5] born in Exning. His father had died in 1908. An entry for Alice [9] born Exning has been crossed out on the original 1911 census document. The family later moved to 1 Victoria Cottages, Newmarket. He died the same day as another Newmarket lad, George Brightwell, also in 11th Battalion, but George was buried in the Extension to the Hargicourt Communal Cemetery. |
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The 11th Suffolks were in the railway cutting to the south west of Fampoux, preparing for the assault on Roeux chemical works on the 28th. They lost 31 men
killed on 26th, most were buried in Hargicourt, only 8 have un-identified graves and are named on the Thiepval memorial. Albert's entry in "Our Exning Heroes" reads as follows: Tilley, Albert J. suffolk Born at Exning in 1898, and educated at Exning School. When war broke out he was working for Messrs. Crumpton and Son. He joined up in 1916, directly he became eighteen, in the Suffolk Regiment, and was in training in England until March, 1917. He then went to France and was on the Somme during the big battles there until he was killed, in August 1917. |
photo; Pierre Vandervelden www.inmemories.com
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