Lieutenant Albert Catterall

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private 5679 28th Battalion London Regiment (Artists Rifles)

Battalion: 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of John William and Esther Alice Catterall, of Rose Hill Terrace Rawcliffe Bridge, near Goole, Yorkshire. He was commissioned 7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 2nd February 1916 and went to France in February 1917. He was promoted Lieutenant 13th December 1917 and was killed in action, 21st March 1918, aged 24, on the first day of the German Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht (“Kaiser’s Battle”) whilst the battalion was in the line near Noreuil, north-east of Bapaume, France.

Buried: Queant Road Cemetery, Buissy, France. Plot 3, Row D, Grave 23.

Lieutenant Albert Catterall is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Rawcliffe Bridge War Memorial, Rawcliffe Bridge, Humberside.