Albert, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment and the 1st Royal Lincolnshire Regiment myself, doing my National Service in 1950-51, while sad to read of your sacrifice, I am pleased to be given this opportunity to salute you as a brave NCO who lost his life in the service of his country in the fighting on the Somme.  I can but quote the memorial hymn again, “All you had hoped for, all you had you gave to save mankind – yourself you scorned to save.”

Henry Harrison