262273 AB. Albert Arthur Sumner Royal Navy HMS Theseus Albert was born in 1874 and joined the Royal Navy in 1892 aged 18, serving on the Impregnable.
The first record I have so far is him serving on on the Ganges in 1908 and according to the records he served on various ships until 1919 by which time he would have been 45. His first Seaman's record says he joins the RFR in 1914 but there does not appear to be a break in his Naval Service.He earned the Star, Victory, BWM medals
This is a list of ships leading up to and during WW1 but there were many before
- HMS Ganges 2 1908-1910
- HMS Africa 1910-1912
- HMS London 1912-1914
- HMS Pembroke 1914
- ? 1914- 1915
- HMS Theseus 1915-1918
- HMS Pembroke 2 1918-1919
Albert left and either owned or rented a house in Brixton, London that was sublet to other families as well as himself.
One of the families was mine as Albert lived with my Gt Grandmother Sarah White nee Martin until she died in 1922, on her death she is listed as Cissie Sumner. Sarah's daughter Florence, her husband Jesse Heat and their young family lived with Albert until he died in 1936.
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