Lammas, Albert V. 1917

Albert Victor Lammas. Died 3rd Dec 1917

Albert was born to a large Hurst and Wokingham family, with nine brothers and sisters. Four of these siblings were from his mother Emily’s second marriage to Edward Priest. A cousin of Albert’s was Albert Priest, a surviving serviceman and later to become Mayor of Wokingham in the 1930’s. Albert left behind his mother and father Harry Lammas, living at 2 Osborne Road, Wokingham.

As many service records were destroyed in the Blitz of World War Two, we do not know when Albert joined the East Kent Regiment and the 1st 5^th Battalion, but we do know he lost his life on the 3^rd December 1917, whilst serving in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). The Commonwealth War Graves Commission describes the actions in Iraq:

‘In 1914, Baghdad was the headquarters of the Turkish Army in Mesopotamia. It was the

ultimate objective of the Indian Expeditionary Force ‘D’ and the goal of the force besieged and captured at Kut in 1916. The city finally fell in March 1917, but the position was not fully consolidated until the end of April. Nevertheless, it had by that time become the Expeditionary Force’s advanced base, with two stationary hospitals and three casualty clearing stations’.

Although Albert is away buried in Iraq, he is remembered alongside other Wokingham boys on the Baghdad Memorial, such as George Alexander and Fred Chambers. Albert was only 20 years old.

Albert’s Family Tree:

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