Category: Civilian
Rank: Second Engineer
Regiment or Ship: Mercantile Marine
Occupation: Merchant seaman
Date of Birth: 1888
Place of Birth: Hull
Date of Death: 16 November 1916
Place of Death: English Channel
Place of Burial / Memorials:
Bexhill Cemetery. Grave EF Q6
Address: 5, Ladygate, Beverley, Yorkshire
Photos and newspaper articles
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Family Information
Mother: Sarah Jane Press b.1867 Doncaster
Sister: Selina Gladys Press b.1897 Hull
Brother: Harold Redvers Press b.1900 Hull
Later married Violet Humphrey Dawson
First World War Experience
Engineer, SS Vasco
Additional Information
Washed ashore off of Bridge Way, Bulverhythe Nov 1916
The service was carried out in the cemetery chapel at the same time as Leonard Cooper. For more information see W0042 COOPER Leonard William (Merchant Seaman)
For reasons unknown Albert’s grave – and that of his shipmate Leonard COOPER – was left unmarked for 99 years. Following research by Bexhill Museum, after contact from his family, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission erected a headstone in April 2015