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Private 9605 Albert STICKLEY - 1st Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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| Military History |
Theatre
Asiatic
Medals
1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals
Medal Citation (if app)
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Enlisted Date/Place
On or before 4 Aug 1914 at Chipping Norton
Other Information/Previous Regiments/Units
Entered the Asiatic Theatre on 5 Dec 1914
Circumstances Leading to Death (Normally from War Diary)
The Regiment [O&BLI] was heavily engaged in the Battle of Ctesiphon, on November 22nd, and following days. General Townshend’s Division fought with the greatest valour, capturing the Turkish trenches and several guns, only to be robbed of complete victory by insufficient numbers to meet the heavily reinforced enemy. As it was, over 1,000 prisoners were taken, and with these and the wounded, the withdrawal of the British force was able to be carried out. But the 43rd had suffered severely, 7 officers having been killed, 6 wounded, and the losses in other ranks amounting to about 450. Source www.lightbobs.com and Great War Forum.
According to his Register of Effects Albert died of wounds aboard HMHS Varela which was anchored just off Basra in the Persian Gulf and on the 4th Dec 1915 received hundreds of wounded and sick soldiers who were, according to the Mesopotamia Commission, crammed onto a barge covered in human faeces from dysentery sufferers. Read the report here - not for the faint hearted!. He was buried at sea. Therefore we cannot say for certain whether he died of disease or of wounds or a mixture of both.
| Personal & Family History |
| Birth Date/Place | Bapitsm Date/Place |
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| Sep Qtr 1899 at Little Compton | |
| Parents Names | Abode |
| Robert and Mary Ann (deceased) Stickley | Little Compton |
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