DRUDGE, Albert Eli

Credit: Gary Newman

Private

7th Battalion

Wiltshire Regiment

Albert was born 1892 in Carisbrooke to Frederick James & Louisa Maria (nee HICKS) DRUDGE of Gunville Lane in Carisbrooke.

Albert was Killed in Action around the 24th - 25th of April 1918 & is buried in Section V Row C Grave 10 of the Doiran Military Cemetery in Greece. He rests beneath a Commission Pedestal Marker alongside 1,337 of his First World War comrades of whom 449 remain unidentified.

Albert is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.