Private Albert Edward Armitage

Private Albert Edward Armitage

Army Number: 2585

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Wentworth, Rotherham, Yorkshire. Son of Willey and Harriett Armitage, of 99, Carter Lane, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Was an assistant schoolmaster at York Street School, Mansfield Woodhouse prior to enlisting at Mansfield 21st September 1914. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 15th June 1915, aged 24, by the explosion of a mine in a trench captured from the Germans near Kemmel, Belgium.

Private Albert Edward Armitage article 1
Nottingham Evening Post 23rd June 1915.
Private Albert Edward Armitage article 2
Mansfield Reporter and Sutton Times 25th June 1915.

Buried: Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot D, Grave 65.

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Private Albert Edward Armitage grave

Private Albert Edward Armitage is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Lawrence’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
St. Peter’s Church War Memorial, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Notts County Council Employees War Memorial, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.