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Pte. Albert Edward Wickes
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Brierfield, Burnley
(d.14th Mar 1915)
Private Albert Edward Wickes was the father of one child and husband of Ruth Wickes, of 25 Carlton Street, Brierfield, Burnley. Before the war he worked as a weaver at Messrs. Haythornthwaite's in Brierfield. In November 1914 his family received a postcard from him explaining how he had been wounded in the First Battle of Ypres on the 13th, and subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans. He was aged 35 when he died of wounds in the Wittenberg detention camp. Albert Wickes is buried in the Berlin South Western Cemetery in Germany.
