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In Memory of ALBERT EDWARD WINSTON
Lance Corporal
84886
30th Coy., Machine Gun Corps (Inf)t

who died on
Thursday 21 March 1918.

Additional Information:
84886 Lance Corporal, 30th Company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Killed in action on Thursday 21 March 1918. The husband of Florence Helena Gardiner (formerly Winston), of Yew Cottage, Barford. He was born and resided in Barford and he enlisted in Warwick. He served overseas at some time after Saturday 1 January 1916. He formerly served as 35667, Worcestershire Regiment. Commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. He is also commemorated on a Memorial Screen, St. Peter’s Church, Barford. Holder of British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Cemetery:
POZIERES MEMORIAL Somme, France Grave or Reference Panel Number: Panel 90 to
93


Location:
Pozieres is a village 6 kilometres north-east of the town of Albert. The Memorial encloses Pozieres British Cemetery which is a little south-west of the village on the north side of the main road, D929, from Albert to Pozieres.

On the road frontage is an open arcade terminated by small buildings and broken in the middle by the entrance and gates. Along the sides and the back, stone tablets are fixed in the stone rubble walls bearing the names of the dead grouped under their Regiments.

It should be added that, although the memorial stands in a cemetery of largely Australian graves, it does not bear any Austra-lian names. The Australian soldiers who fell in France and whose graves are not known are commemorated on the National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.

The Panel Numbers quoted at the end of each entry relate to the panels dedicated to the Regiment served with. In some instances where a casualty is recorded as attached to an-other Regiment, his name may alternatively appear within their Regimental Panels. Please refer to the on-site Memorial Register Introduction to determine the alternative panel numbers if you do not find the name within the quoted Panels.

Historical Information:
The POZIERES MEMORIAL relates to the period of crisis in March and April 1918 when the Allied Fifth Army was driven back by overwhelming numbers across the former Sonune battlefields, and the months that followed before the Advance to Victory, which began on 8 August 1918.

The Memorial commemorates over 14,000 casualties of the United Kingdom and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from 21 March to 7 August 1918. The Corps and Regiments most largely represented are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, The Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names.

The memorial encloses POZIERES BRITISH CEMETERY, Plot II of which contains original burials of 1916, 1917 and 1918, carried out by fighting units and field am-bulances. The remaining plots were made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefields immediately surrounding the cemetery, the majority of them of soldiers who died in the Autumn of 1916 during the latter stages of the Battle of the Somme, but a few represent the fighting in August 1918.

There are now 2,755 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 1,375 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to 23 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. The cemetery and memorial were designed by W H Cowlishaw.


Regiment, Corps etc.

Machine Gun Corps

Battalion/etc.

Infantry

Surname

WINSTON

Christian Name(s)

Albert Edward

Born

Barford, Warwick

Enlisted

Warwick

Residence

Barford

Died Date

21/03/18

Rank

L/CPL

Number

84886

Died How

Killed in action

Theatre of War

France & Flanders

Supplementary notes

FORMERLY 35667, WORCS REGT.

You might also be interested in an informative website devoted to the Machine Gun Corps. Click here to visit Jim Parker's website.

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