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Albert Harris

Ancestry site Military records
Private Albert Harris, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 74389, Royal Army Medical
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Corp, killed in action, 26 October 1917, Western European Theatre.
Forces War Records, Private Albert Harris’s parents were Mr and Mrs Albert Edward Harris
of 88 Rectory Road, Redditch.
He is buried at Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, Grave: III. F. 4, Belgium.

Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery – source:- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/52500/KLEIN-
VIERSTRAAT%20BRITISH%20CEMETERY

Remembered on St Luke’s war memorial, Headless Cross and Headless Cross C. of E. School war memorial

(On the 1911 census Albert William Harris born in Crabbs Cross, aged 18, Stamp and Press Tool Maker in Steel
Material, lived with his parents Albert Edward and Helen Harris and siblings at 88 Rectory Road, Headless
Cross.)

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Private Albert Harris 59 Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corp is remembered at:-
http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/455483/HARRIS,%20A

He is remembered in Golden Book One 1914 – 1918 – Royal Army Medical Corp at:-
https://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/OnlineBooks/RAMC/Persons/.../260

The Royal Army Medical Corps of 1914-1918

The role of the RAMC
The RAMC operated the army's medical units and provided medical detachments for the units of infantry,
artillery and other arms. The Corps was assisted in its work by voluntary help from the British Red Cross, St
John's Ambulance, the Friends Ambulance Unit, the Voluntary Aid Detachments and hundreds of private and
charitable ventures.

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