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Cpl. Albert Dancer
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Wolverhampton
Albert Dancer became the second husband of my great grandmother, or Nan, as we called her. I never met him, although my mother remembers him as a jovial and friendly man. Albert was born in Wolverhampton in 1881, eldest son of Samuel and Elizabeth Dancer. He married in 1910 but my family never knew his first wife. He was relatively old to join up during the war, being in his mid-thirties, but he served in the RGA and reached the rank of acting-sergeant by the war's end.
After the Second World War he met my Nan, whose own first husband (my great grandfather) had died fairly young. They lived a very happy life together and Albert involved himself actively in amateur dramatics. He passed away in 1967.
Unfortunately, we know almost nothing of Albert's service in the Great War. Being in the RGA makes it very difficult to research his unit and we have no records of where he served. My family do, however, have his war medals which help us to remember the man who shared the last 20 years of his life with Nan.
