ALBERT WILLIAM CHARLES HUZINGA
Born: 1885, Ipswich.
Died: 9th April 1916; age 30; died of Wounds at No. 19 Casualty Clearing Station.
Residence: 17, Bishops Hill, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Date of Entry Therein: 20th December 1914 – France.
Rank: Rifleman; Service Number: 1227
Regiment: The Rifle Brigade, 9th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1915 Star.
Grave Reference:
I.E.10.
Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 1,
Somme,
France.
Relatives Notified & Address: Husband of Florence A. M. Huzinga, of 17, Bishops Hill, Ipswich.
Brother-in-law to THOMAS HAWKINS.
CENSUS
1891 26, Foundation Street, Ipswich
Albert was 5 years old and living with his parents & brother.
Albert Alje Huzinga, a Wine Merchant, born Holland.
Esther Mary Huzinga (nee Chaplin), 34, born Ipswich.
Francis Joseph H. Huzinga, 2, born Ipswich.
1901 9, Tooley’s Street, Ipswich.
Albert was 15 years old, a Compositor – Print. He was living with his parents & brother.
Albert, 43, a Cellarman – Wines & Spirits.
Esther, 44.
Francis, 12.
1911 Egypt
Albert was 25 years old, a Soldier ranked Rifleman in the 4th Battalion of The Rifle Brigade.
Albert’s father, Albert Huzinga, died in August 1910, in the River Gipping, Claydon.
On the 4th July 1915, at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich, 29 year old Albert, a Rifleman of the Rifle Brigade, based at Sheerness, married 34 year old Florence Agnes Mabel Hawkins, a laudress, born November 1880, Ipswich, of 137, Bishop’s Hill, Ipswich – of the William Hawkins, a cooper, and Mary Ann Hawkins, a charwoman, of Ipswich.
After the death of her parents, Florence became head of the household and cared for her younger siblings.
Florence and Albert had one son:
Albert William Charles Huzinga, April 1916, Ipswich.
Albert became stepfather to Florence’s son Edward Ashford Hawkins, born September 1907, Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Florence A.M. Huzinga – widow.
Albert is also remembered on the war memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Ipswich.
Evening Star – Monday, 29th August 1910 – CLAYDON RIVER MYSTERY – DUTCHMAN “FOUND DROWNED” – An inquest was held by Coroner A.F. Vulliamy on Monday, 29th August, at the Police Station in Claydon, on the body of Albert Alje Huzinga, of No. 7, Swallows Lane, Bramford Road, Ipswich, whose body was found in the River Gipping, at Claydon, at about 3:30 p.m. Sunday.
Esther Huzinga, the widow, identified the body and said Albert was a carter, in the employ of Mr. Shipp and was aged 52. He lived in Bramford Road, but she had not seen him since the 30th December, when he left her in a penniless and destitute condition. Esther said that Albert had been in an asylum eight years ago. He was a Dutchman by birth, and his relatives were very respectable people. She and Albert did not live together.
Freeman Keeble, a labourer, living at Bramford, stated that he was in a boat on the River Gipping when he saw the body of a man floating in the river Gipping near the bridge at Claydon. He communicated with Police-constable Goodwin. The body was recovered and conveyed to the Claydon cricket pavilion.
Police-constable Goodwin searched the deceased’s body and found three letters, two with reference to insurance, and one from his son in Egypt; 19 picture postcards,11/2d. in money, gout pills, razor, brush and soap, and a plated watch, which had stopped at eight o’clock.
The medical evidence was to the effect that it was impossible to say how long the body had been in the water, but it had been in not less than five days. The stomach was full of water, and death was due to drowning. There was nothing about the body suggestive of foul play.
The Coroner, in summing up, pointed out that there was no evidence to show whether the deceased accidentally fell into the water or committed suicide, and he suggested that the only verdict the jury could return was that of “Found Drowned.” The jury returned a verdict accordingly.
The Rifle Brigade, 9th Battalion:
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