223634 Cpl. Albert Luddittt British Army 15th Btn. Sherwood Foresters from:116 Highbury Road, Kingsheath, Birmingham Albert Ludditt served with the 15th Btn. Sherwood Foresters and died in 1920. Additional Information: | At the age of 6,(1891) he lived in Slade Lane,Yardley Wood,Birmingham,his father was a mill stone dresser.In july 1908 he married Ethel Annie Taylor,In 1911 he was a clerk to a bicycle manufacturer living at 116 Highbury Road,KingsHeath.He seems to have managed to survive the war,serving in the 12th and 15th Battalion,Notts n Derbys(Sherwood Foresters)Regiment.Reg no;24353,rank Corporal.The 12th were renamed the Pioneer Regiment.On the 29th August 1915 the Regiment marched from Etaples to Loos,big losses.In 1916 they were gassed at Wulverghem,then moved to The Somme and the Battle of Delville Wood and Guillemont.In 1917,Vimy Ridge,Messines,Ypres and Cambrai.1918 saw them on The Somme again,Cambrai and Picardy.At the end of the war he was 33 and 1.5 miles east of Mons,between Denain and Douai,he was demobbed on the 18 Dec 1918,home 26 Mar 1919.I do not have his service record so cannot be entirely certain of his movements over these years but he appears to have managed to get through the war only to die in December 1920 leaving a wife and 3 children under 10 years of age the last one born in 1919.Diane Jones
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