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Albert Martin
Albert Martin.

Albert Martin
1899-1918

Albert was the youngest of the twelve children of James Martin and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Giddings of Little Downham, Cambridgeshire.

He enlisted as a Private for the 1st/5th Batallion of the Northumberland Fusiliers and went to fight in the First World War but was sadly taken as a Prisoner of War by German forces. He died in a German coal mine.



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Born:
6th April 1899, Little Downham Fen, Cambridgeshire.

Died:
30th August 1918 in a German coal mine as a prisoner of war, aged 19 years.

Buried:
Cologne Southern Cemetery, Germany.

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