Leicestershire War Memorials

Private Albert Sturgess, 5552

Batt - 2nd
Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
Section -

Date of Birth -
Died - 08/05/1901
Age -

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Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Previously served with 3rd Battalion, Derbyshire Regiment
https://royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/entity/123930-sturgess-albert?q=boer

"Information to add: A friend found his bed plate in a field where they had a skermish." (Image from H Nortje 26/03/23)

Leicestershire Project Findings

Conflict - Boer War, Second (1899-1902)
Cause of death - Dysentery
Place of death - Elandsfontein
Birth Place - Shardlow, Derbyshire
Enlisted - Leicester

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Low granite wall with bronze plaques of lists of the dead, bronzes of a kneeling angel with sword and olive branch (peace). FIgures of grief and war on end pillars.