Private Albert Lee

Army Number: 18393

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Beeston, Nottingham. Son of Mrs Emma Lee, of 28, Imperial Road, Beeston, Nottingham. He was a labourer prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France on 18th August 1915 and was killed in action on 5th July 1916, aged 22, in the attack on the German positions at La Boisselle, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Private Harold Lee — Nottingham Daily Express 2nd April 1915

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Albert Lee is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. John the Baptist Church War Memorial, Beeston, Nottingham.

His brother Private Harold Lee, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.