A.+HOUSLEY

__Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914 - 1919__

Housley, Albert, Private, 3548, 1st/6th Bn, Notts & Derby Regiment Born Ashbourne, Derbyshire Enlisted Buxton, Derbyshire Resided Ashbourne, Derbyshire Killed in action France & Flanders 3rd April 1916

__Commonwealth War Graves Commission__ (www.cwgc.org)

Aged 20 Son of Thomas and Sarah Ann Housley, of Ashbourne, Derbyshire Buried in Ecoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-St. Eloi, I, C, 24

__Ashbourne News, 14th April 1916__

'The news was received in Ashbourne on Saturday morning last, that Private Albert Housley, of the Sherwood Foresters, had been killed by a sniper on April 3rd. The melancholy information was contained in a letter to the Rev. Canon Morris (vicar of Ashbourne) from Colonel Goodman, the commanding officer. Private Housley, who was only 19 years of age when he enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters, was the son of Mrs. Housley, of the Ashbourne Coffee House (and formerly of Derby-road, Ashbourne), and before joining the army he was employed at Hunter’s Stores, Dig-street. He was trained at Buxton, Luton, Watford, Epping Forest, and Dunstable, and it was from the last named place that he proceeded with a draft to the front in June last. He was for some time prior to his enlistment in the Voluntary Aid Detachment at Ashbourne, and was a member of the Bible Class at St. John’s Church, where a memorial service will be held on Sunday evening next.'