Albert Tandy
Memorial: Hawkesbury Upton
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 241519 (Formerly 4566)
Parents: Thomas and Lucy (Nee Gardener) Tandy
Marital status: Single
Home address: High Street, Hawkesbury Upton, Glos. 1901 Census, also Hawkesbury Upton
Pre-war occupation: Farm Labourer
Date of birth: 1894
Place of birth: Hawkesbury Upton
Date of death: 23/03/1918
Buried/Commemorated at: Pozieres Memorial (Panel 40 and 41), France
Age: 23
Further information:
Albert was a farm labourer and lived in the family home on the High Street, Hawkesbury Upton.
In 1917, he fought with the 2nd/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment at Ypres and at Cambrai. On 21st March 1918, the Germans launched their spring offensive and the battalion came under heavy shell and gas attack. For the next two days, the battalion would fight hard to stop the Germans crossing the canal, suffering hundreds of casualties.
There is prisoner of war cards that shows Albert was “captured” by the Germans and he is recorded as missing on the 21st March 1918 whilst attached to ‘D’ company 2nd Platoon. It is likely that he was badly wounded and died shortly after, but his body was not recovered.
Albert Tandy is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Hawkesbury.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Many thanks to the researcher Simon Bendry.
Forces War Records.
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis.