Rifleman R/8392 Albert Thomas LACEY

9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Killed in action while stretcher-bearing during the battle of Arras, France and Flanders, 9th April 1917, age 31

Buried Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines, Pas-de-Calais, France. Grave ref: II.H.2

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Eldest son of Albert and Elizabeth Clara Lacey

Brother of Pte Arthur Ainsworth Lacey

NNWFHS Memorial Glascote

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Rfn Lacey

King’s Royal Rifle Corps

Tilloy British Cemetery

Other Information

1891 Census, living at 2 Spinning School Lane, Tamworth with his parents and sister, Hilda.

1901 Census, living at 99 Gungate, Tamworth with his parents, Albert & Elizabeth and his siblings. Employed as a Tailors Clerk.

1911 Census, living at 107 Main Road, Glascote, Tamworth with his parents and siblings. Employed as a plasterer.

In the Tamworth Herald, 5th May 1917

“Mr. and Mrs. A. Lacey, of 107 Main Road, Glascote, have been informed that their eldest son, 8392 Rifleman Albert Thomas Lacey, King’s Royal Rifles, was killed in action while stretcher bearing in the battle of Arras, on April 9. He was 31 years of age, and before the war worked with his father as a plasterer. Private Arthur Lace, of the Australian Imperial Forces, another son of Mr. and Mrs. Lacey, was killed in Gallipoli in 1915”

In the Tamworth Herald, 4th June 1927

“LACEY – In loving memory of Rifleman Albert Thomas Lacey, K.R.R., dearly beloved son of Albert and Elizabeth Lacey, of Glascote, killed in action at the Battle of Arras, April 9 1917, age 31 years; also of Athur, who died at Malta from wounds received in the Dardanelles and interred at Pieta Cemetery, Malta.. May 31, 1915 aged 21 years. “Rest in Peace.” – From mother, father, sisters and brothers. Glascote and Kettlebrook.”