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Albert was born in Rugeley, Staffordshire, in 1895, the son of Alfred Caddy and his wife Louisa (nee Barlow).
He was a private in the East Yorkshire Regiment, possibly stationed at Victoria Barracks, Beverley. He married Elsie May Jackson at Beverley Minster on 25 Sep 1916, their son Bertie, was born on 8 Oct 1917.
Albert enlisted on 5 Aug 1914, he was allocated to the Royal Staffordshire Regiment, but was transferred to the East Yorkshire Regiment as private no: 28497. He was in the 8th Battalion and he was wounded on 28 Sep 1915 on the third day of the Battle of Loos in France, receiving a gunshot wound to his arm. He was moved to the 2nd General Hospital at Le Treport and then transferred to the Western General Hospital in Manchester. As the Beverley Guardian of 6 Oct 1917 notes, Albert then joined the Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light infantry, serving on the Salonika Front in the Balkans to the north of Greece. His switch to the Labour Corps indicates that he was taken off frontline duties. On 1 Apri1918 he appears on the newly formed RAF muster as a Private (second class), working as a batman in the 22nd Balloon Company which operated in Salonika. He was discharged from the RAF due to ill health on 30 Jan 1919 and was given a pension. He was awarded the War and Victory medals and the 1914-15 Star.
Albert returned to Beverley but died on 1 Dec 1920 of pulmonary tuberculosis. He was buried in Queensgate Cemetery on 6 Dec 1920, his grave classified as a war grave by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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