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Pte. Albert Earnest Vause
British Army 43rd Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Pontefract, West Yorkshire
Albert Vause was 39 years old when he re-enlisted at Pontefract Barracks (West Yorkshire) in the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry on 1st of September 1914. He initially saw action with the 6th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was deployed to France on 21st of May 1915. He was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps on 16th of February 1916, where his Army records indicate he was deployed for a second time to France on 18th of November 1917.
Albert was one of the lucky ones who returned from the war, but his lungs were badly damaged from a gas attack and he spent the rest of his life in ill health.

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