ALBERT EDWARD DRIVER

Image from the Suffolk Chronicle And Mercury  – July 1919

Born: 1898, Ipswich.

Died: 20th October 1918; age 19; KiA.

Residence: Ipswich.

Occupation: at Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, Orwell Works, Ipswich.

Enlistment Location: Ipswich.

Rank: Private; Service Number: 634842

Regiment: London Regiment, 2/20th (County of London) Battalion.

Formerly G/39305, Royal West Kent Regiment, Blackheath & Woolwich.

Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.

Grave Reference:

I.D.1.

Romeries Communal Cemetery Extension,

France.

CENSUS

1901   5, Little Gipping Street, St. Peter’s, Ipswich.

Albert was 2 years old and living with his parents & siblings.

William Driver, 41, a Quay Labourer, born Harkstead, Suffolk.

Florence Driver (nee Potter), 38, born Harkstead.

Alice Daisy Driver, 15, born Harkstead.

William Ernest Driver, 9, born Harkstead.

1911   5, Little Gipping Street, Ipswich.

Albert was 13 years old and living with his widowed father & brother.

William, 52, a Dock Labourer.

Frederick Arthur Driver, born Ipswich.

Albert’s mother, Florence Driver, died in 1909, Ipswich. Albert’s father, William, died in 1911 in Ipswich.

Soldiers’ Effects to Mrs. Alice Diasy Laughlin – sister.

Albert is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich, and on the Orwell Works Memorial, Ransomes Sims & Jefferies, Ipswich.

Albert is also remembered at The Mission Free Church, Curriers Lane, Ipswich.

London Regiment, 20th (County of London) Battalion: