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Albert was born and christened in 1892 in Barton upon Humber. His father George, born 1857, and his mother Mary, born 1861. In 1911 George was employed as a labourer at a tannery in Beverley. Albert had seveal siblings of George, William Rufus, Fred, Hetty and Herbert, the family lived at 81 Minster Moorgate, Beverley.
Albert enlisted in the Army in Beverley and joined the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment as a private. In Jul 1915 he wrote a letter to Mr Harry Wray, Mayor of Beverley, he said that 'at that time he was out of the trenches having a rest where it was very quiet. He had had a trying time but felt that the Army needed plenty of shells and that if so they would pull through'. He finished by saying that all the Beverley lads "send their respects to you".
The 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, Green Howards war diary records that Albert was wounded on 22 Mar and killed in action on 26 Jun 1917. In mid June the 50th Division had returned to the front line with the village of Fontaine les Croisilles on the right and Cherisy on the left. On 26 June they attacked the German lines and took their objectives. The Beverley Guardian 7 Jul 1917 reported that Albert Constable had been killed in action and the Hull Daily Mail reported the same on 9 Jul.
Albert Constable is remembered on the Arras Memorial in France and has no known grave, he is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial and in Beverley Minster
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