Private Albert Henry Hardwidge

Army Number: 6074

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born in Birmingham and lived in Saltley, Birmingham. Son of William and Fanny Hardwidge of 239 Alma Rock Road, Saltley. He was a town labourer prior to enlisting on 19th August 1914 at Nottingham into the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to Gallipoli on 1st July 1915 and was wounded on the 27th of July 1915, being admitted to hospital at Mudros, Turkey.

On recovery, he went to France on 28th June 1916 and suffered gunshot wounds to his left forearm and was transferred to England on the 27th of September 1916 on Hospital Ship St. David. He was treated at Colchester Hospital from the 28th September 1916 until the 27th October 1916, at Earls Colne Red Cross Hospital, Essex from the 27th October 1916 to the 6th January 1917 and at Croydon War Hospital from the 6th January 1917 to the 22nd January 1917.

He returned to France on 5th April 1917 and was posted to the 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment on the 27th April 1917. He was killed in action, on 26th May 1917, whilst serving in the trenches on the Black Line, near Arras.

Commemorated: Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.