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2nd Lt. Albert Ernest Cooling
British Army 14th Btn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment
from:9 Queens Ave., Maltby, Rotherham, Yorks.
Albert Ernest Cooling was one of 11 children born 20th June 1891 at Cuckney in Nottinghamshire. He enlisted at Chesterfield in 1915 as a 24 year old. He first entered France with the 11th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby) Regiment on the 27th August 1915. By the November he was promoted to 2nd Lt and transferred to the 14th Battalion. Hesaw action on the Western Front for almost a year before being severely wounded in the neck by machine gun fire during the Battle of the Somme autumn of 1916 and was subsequently repatriated to a Military Hospital in South East England for treatment and to convalesce. He relinquished his commission in January 1918 on account of ill-health caused by his wounds. He went on to serve in WW2 as a Captain. He died in 1959 in Suffolk aged 68.
