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CQMS. Albert William Cornish
British Army 1st Battalion Devonshire Regiment
from:Jersey
(d.19th Sep 1914)
Albert Cornish was born in Bideford, Devon in 1877, the son of Emily Cornish from Kilkhampton in Cornwall, and half brother to Stanley, Archibald and Lilian Hole. From humble beginnings Albert sought a career in the army, but his life was sadly cut short on the 19th of September 1914. He is remembered with honour at the Vailly British Cemetery in France and commemorated on the war memorial at Abbotskerswell church, where there is also the inscription "died a hero" on his sister Lilians' grave stone. He left behind a wife Jessie and three children, Hilda, Sidney and Edna.