Private 6171 Albert Edward BURGESS
1st Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry
Died of Wounds, Tuesday 19th October 1915, 17th Field Ambulance, Belgium, Age 20
Home address:
136 Nelson Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Born:
1895, Hyde, Cheshire
Parents:
Elizabeth Ann Burgess and Samuel Burgess
136 Nelson Street, Hyde, Cheshire
Marital Status:
Single
Occupation:
-
Enlisted:
Hyde, Cheshire
Remembered:
Poperinge New Military Cemetery, Popering, West-Vlannderen, Belgium, plot I, row C, grave 21.
Link to Hyde:
Born in Hyde
Brother to Private 265845 Samuel A. Burgess
From the Hyde Reporter, 13th November 1915, page 7, column 4:
His last letter to his sister Mrs Gibbons, 6 Shenton Street, Flowery Field, Hyde, Cheshire, dated August 17th 1915:
I expect you have heard of the British success. I am very glad to say that I came through without a scratch. We had an awful time. We were under shell fire for seventeen hours. The General told us it was a most infernal bombardment. You never knew what would happen the next minute. It was like waiting for death. There were some awful sights. I am very proud to say the boys stuck it well. I feel very sorry for my comrades who fell, but I thank God that He spared me.
I expect you have heard of the British success. I am very glad to say that I came through without a scratch. We had an awful time. We were under shell fire for seventeen hours. The General told us it was a most infernal bombardment. You never knew what would happen the next minute. It was like waiting for death. There were some awful sights. I am very proud to say the boys stuck it well. I feel very sorry for my comrades who fell, but I thank God that He spared me.
The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by his father: