Albert Payne
Memorial: Kingswood - Holy Trinity Church
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery
Medals: 1914–15 Star, British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Silver War Badge, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Gunner 43782
Parents: George and Mary Payne
Marital status: Married
Home address: 46 High Street, Kingswood, Bristol
Date of birth: 14/02/1988
Place of birth: Fishponds, Bristol
Date of death: 21/02/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: Buried at Peronne Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France and commemorated on Kingswood Holy Trinity Memorial
Age: 29
Further information:
Albert was born in Fishponds the son of a bootmaker and the eldest of six children with two sisters and three brothers. His mother died when he was in his teens and Albert acquired a stepbrother and stepsister when his father remarried in 1905. Albert married Ada Buckland in 1913.
Albert served with "D" Battery, 181st Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, his brigade served with the 40th division and were mobilised to France in June 1916 where they fought in various actions on the Western Front including the Battle of Loos and The Battle of the Ancre on the Somme. Albert was killed in action, but as his battalion were not taking part in any significant engagement on the day of his death it is likely that he died during the ongoing trench warfare that accounted for 300 soldier deaths per day. After the armistice, his body was exhumed from the battlefield and reburied in its current location.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
This information has been provided by Sarah Hands, Volunteer Researcher for the South Gloucestershire War Memorials Web Site.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
https://www.cwgc.org/
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/
https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/
https://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/fartillery.php?pid=9774