Nine Elms Military Cemetery, Thelus.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Saturday 21 April 1917
Roll of Honour. We regret to have to add
another name to the already long list of Jersey-Canadians
who have laid down their lives for King and Country
during the heavy fighting on 9 April. This soldier,
Private Claude Henry Albert, brother of Mr Lance Albert,
was 36 and served in the South African Campaign with
the Royal Army Medical Corps, at the outbreak of war
he was residing in Canada and joined the Expeditionary
Force. He had previously been wounded twice during this
campaign and has now been called upon to make the supreme
sacrifice at Vimy Ridge. We tender the relatives our
sincere sympathy.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post
of Monday 18 June 1917
The Late Private Claude Albert. The Calgary
Daily Herald of 17 May publishes the following together
with a photo of Private Albert. "Private Claude
Albert, who had twice been wounded in the Great War,
is now reported to have been killed in action. A South
African war veteran, he enlisted early in the war and
left with the first draft that was called from Lieutenant
Colonel Mason's Battalion. He came to Calgary from Jersey
in the Channel Islands and prior to enlistment resided
in Calgary for about 8 years. He was 36 and while here
was employed as a driver for the P Burns company, he
lived here with his foster parents, Mr & Mrs Charles
Le Geyt."
Canadian
Attestation Paper
