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Surname: GILL
Forename(s): Albert Price
Place of Birth: Nelson, Lancashire
Service No: 105963
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Army Medical Corps
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Field Ambulance
Division: 1st Division
Age: 25
Date of Death: 1918-11-13
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: III. D. 5.
CWGC Cemetery: PREMONT BRITISH CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: BARNOLDSWICK, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: BRADLEY, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Albert Price Gill was the son of John Edward and Annie Gill, née Greenwood. John was born at Bradley near Skipton, Yorkshire and Annie at Nelson, Lancashire. Albert was the cousin of Private Charles Henry Gill (32576) (q.v.).
1901 Nelson, Lancashire Census: 77, Smith Street - Albert P. Gill, aged 8 years, born Nelson, son of John E. and Annie Gill.
1911 Nelson, Lancashire Census: 382, Leeds Road - Albert Price Gill, aged 18 years, born Nelson, son of John Edward and Annie Gill.
The British Army Service Record for Albert Price Gill exists but may be incomplete.
A short biography of Albert is included in: ‘Barnoldswick – A small Town’s part in conflicts 1800 to 2014’ by Peter Ian Thompson (2014).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
GILL, Albert Price, aged 25 years, R.A.M.C., son of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Gill, 152, Gisburn Road, [Barnoldswick], died from pneumonia, France, Nov. 13, 1918.
GILL, Albert Price, aged 25, R.A.M.C., 152, Gisburn Road, [Barnoldswick], died from pneumonia Nov. 13, 1918.
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Private Albert Price GILL
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Army Medical Corps
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 1st Division
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29 November 1918
BARNOLDSWICK – TWO SOLDIERS DIE FROM PNEUMONIA
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gill, 152 Gisburn Road, Barnoldswick, have been officially informed of the death of their only son, Private Albert Price Gill, R.A.M.C., which took place from pneumonia at a Casualty Clearing Station in France on the 13th inst., three days after admission. He had served at the Front 18 months. Before joining the Army he was employed by Messrs. Edmondson and Co. Fernbank. He was a member of the Barnoldswick Ambulance Association and connected with the Primitive Methodist Church. Private Gill was 25 years of age and unmarried.
14 November 1919
GILL – In sacred memory of our dear nephew, Albert Price Gill, the dearly beloved and only son of John Eddie and Annie Gill, who died on November 13th, 1918, aged 25 years, and was interred at the Cemetery, Premont, France.
Not now but in the coming years,
It may be in the better land;
We’ll read the meaning of our tears,
And there sometime we’ll understand.
Too dearly loved to be forgotten.
From Uncles, Aunts, and Cousins, Lane Top, Bradley.
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29 November 1918
Two Soldiers’ Deaths from Pneumonia
Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Gill, 152, Gisburn Road. Barnoldswick, have been officially informed of the death of their only son, Pte. Albert Price Gill, R.A.M.C., which took place from pneumonia at a casualty clearing station in France on the 13th inst., three days after admission. He had served at the front 18 months. Before joining the army he was employed by Messrs. Edmondson and Co, Fernbank. He was a member of the Barnoldswick Ambulance Association, and connected with the Primitive Methodist Church. Pte. Gill was 25 years of age and unmarried.
Pte. Wm. Greenhalgh, Shropshire Light Infantry, died on Thursday last in Keighley Military hospital from broncho-pneumonia. He joined up early in the war, and served a short time in France before going to Salonica, where, during a stay of over three years, he had repeated attacks of malaria. Returning to England in August last, he has since been identified with a labour unit. A fortnight prior to his decease he came home to 21, Colin Street, Barnoldswick, to visit his brother (who had been wounded in France), whom he had not seen for four years, and was taken ill and removed to Keighley Hospital on Thursday afternoon last week, dying the same night. Pte. Greenhalgh was 25 years of age, and a native of Blackburn. His brother, Pte. Alex. Greenhalgh, was killed in March last.
Pte. Alfred Banks, Duke of Wellington’s, news of whose death came to hand last week-end, was killed in action on the 1st inst. He went out with the 1st 6th Battalion in April, 1915, and had been wounded twice previously. He was 23 years of age and married, his wife residing at 15, Arthur Street, Sough Bridge, Earby. Before enlisting he worked for the East End Manufacturing Co., Sough Bridge. He was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Banks, 20, Louvain Street, Barnoldswick.
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