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PRIVATE ALBERT HENRY SREEVES,
1st Battalion London Regiment
Died 16th August 1917, aged 23
According to early Free Church manuals he was listed as a church member from 1912, residing at 50 Erskine Hill. The Manual of 1915 gives him as ‘serving in Army’. Various mentions of him place him in Malta, being wounded in the Dardanelles, and convalescing in Netley Hospital from the effects of ‘tear shells’. After serving in the army for three years with the hardship of the trenches it was not until 16th August 1917 that he was fatally wounded at the first time of ‘going over the top’. He is remembered with honour at The Huts Cemetery, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and is commemorated on the Free Church War Memorial.
