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1885 - 1916

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1887 - 1916

Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
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Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918

Pte 300470 Albert George Cuddy

Age: 22
From: Maghull
Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 18th Btn
D.O.W Wednesday 19th December 1917
Commemorated at: Lijssenthoek M C Poperinghe
Panel Ref: XXVII.C.5

Albert George was born in Maghull on 27th July 1895, the son of Albert Edward Cuddy and his wife Elizabeth (nee Uren). He was baptised on 4th August 1895, his parents’ residence given as Aintree, and his father’s occupation as architect.

His father was born in Liverpool and his mother in Maghull. They married in 1892 and had four children. Albert had an older sister Edith and younger siblings Edna and Wilfred.

In 1901 his parents, with two children, are living with his maternal grandparents, William and Mary Uren, in Turnpike Road, Maghull, next to five “Uren’s Cottages”. His grandfather, 71, is living on private means. His father is 32, an architect assistant, Edith is 7 and Albert is 5.

In 1911 the family is living at “Roanoke”, Liverpool Road, Maghull His father is 42, an architect, his mother is 40. Edith is 17, Albert is 15, an architect’s pupil, Edna is 6 and Wilfred 4. Also in the household is his widowed grandmother, Mary Uren, 79. Another child, Rosamond, was born the next year.

He attended St Andrews School in Maghull and was employed by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board prior to enlistment.

He enlisted in Liverpool on 11/09/1914 in the 6th Battalion as Private 2428 he gave his age as 19 years and 2 months and is described as being 5' 11 and a half inches tall. His records also show service with both the Lancashire Fusiliers as Pte 250845 and Lancashire Hussars as 1930. He was serving with the 18th Battalion of The King's Liverpool Regiment as Private 300470 when he died of wounds on the 19th December 1917 aged 22.

Albert George now rests at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium where his headstone bears the epitaph;

"A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY HE LEFT FOR US TO MOURN"

During the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the main communication line between the Allied military bases in the rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place to establish casualty clearing stations. The cemetery was first used by the French 15th Hopital D'Evacuation and in June 1915, it began to be used by casualty clearing stations of the Commonwealth forces.

From April to August 1918, the casualty clearing stations fell back before the German advance and field ambulances (including a French ambulance) took their places.

The cemetery contains 9,901 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 24 being unidentified. There are 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and German, 11 of these are unidentified. There is 1 Non World War burial here.

The only concentration burials were 24 added to Plot XXXI in 1920 from isolated positions near Poperinghe and 17 added to Plot XXXII from St. Denijs Churchyard in 1981.

Eight of the headstones are Special Memorials to men known to be buried in this cemetery, these are located together alongside Plot 32 near the Stone of Remembrance.

The cemetery, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, is the second largest Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium.

His family received the news before Christmas; they placed a notice in the Liverpool Echo on Christmas Eve 1917:

“December 19, died of wounds, Private A.G. Cuddy, Trench Mortar Battery, K.L.R. (late Lancashire Hussars), eldest and dearly beloved son of Albert E. and Elizabeth Cuddy, Roanoke, Maghull.”

On the first anniversary of his death, an In Memoriam notice in the Ormskirk Advertiser on 19th December 1918:

“In loving remembrance of Trooper Albert George Cuddy, eldest son of Albert Edward and Elizabeth Cuddy, who died of wounds, in Belgium, December 19, 1917. - Deeply loved by all at “Roanoke”, Maghull.”

And in the Liverpool Echo on the same date:

“In loving remembrance of Albert George Cuddy, eldest son of Albert Edward and Elizabeth Cuddy, who died of wounds, in Belgium, December 19, 1917. - Deeply mourned by all at Roanoke, Maghull.”

“In loving memory of Albert G. Cuddy. Pals, late of Lancashire Hussars, who died of wounds December 19, 1917, in France. - Uncle and Family, 488, Rice Lane.”

He received two medals the British War Medal and the Victory medal, there is no 1914-15 Star, so it is likely that he served overseas from 1916 onwards.

His parents received Albert’s Army effects, including a War Gratuity of £8-10s and a pension of 15/- a week.

His father died in 1927, aged 59.

In 1939 his mother Elizabeth, 68, was living in Spring Gardens, Maghull, with Edith, 46, Edna, 35, Wilfred, 32, and Rosamond, 27. His mother lived through the Second World War and died in 1947, aged 76.

Albert George is commemorated on the following Memorials:

St Andrews Church, Maghull

St Andrews School, Maghull

Sefton Parish Church

Ormskirk War Memorial

Mersey Docks and Harbour Memorial

We currently have no further information on Albert George Cuddy. If you have or know someone who may be able to add to the history of this soldier, please contact us.

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