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Pte. Albert Ingham
British Army 18th Btn. Manchester Regiment
from:England
(d.1st Dec 1916)
Pte. Albert Ingham served with the Manchester Regiment 18th Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 1st December 1916 and buried in the Bailleulmont Communal Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.
(According to Ward & Gibson (p 81), the Commission engraved on the headstone, at the insistence of the deceased’s father, the words: "Shot At Dawn. One of the First to Enlist". He had apparently been caught in civilian clothes on board a Swedish ship about to sail from Dieppe. Official records have: ‘Died of wounds’, while his Death Certificate states: ‘Shot by sentence of FGCM for Desertion'.