Name: Albert Lorking Rank: Private Service Number: 2355331 Service: 7th Regiment, 1st Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Date of Birth: November 30, 1891 Place of Birth: St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, England Date of Enlistment: July 5, 1917 Place of Enlistment: London, Ontario Address at Enlistment: Republic City, Republic County, Kansas Age at Enlistment: 25 Height: 5 feet, 3 inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Brown Hair Colour: Dark Brown Occupation: Labourer (brick layer) Marital Status: Single Religion: Anglican Next of Kin: William Lorking (Father), Wentworth Falls, New South Wales, Australia Date of Discharge: June 5, 1920 (Toronto, Ontario) Age: 28 Date of Death: May 6, 1938 Age: 46 Cemetery: Riverside Cemetery, Hebron, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia Albert ‘Bert’ Lorking was the son of William Thomas Lorking (1846-1921) and Ruth (Packham) Lorking (1852-1943), the brother of Fred Lorking (1889-1954) and Ruth Dorothy Lorking (1897-1983), and the husband of Minnie Osborne (Redding) Lorking (1879-1940). Minnie Redding was born in Hebron, Yarmouth Co., Nova Scotia. Albert and his wife married on October 17, 1917, in Middlesex, Ontario. Albert’s grandmother was lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria and her son, Albert’s father, was born in Southern England in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire. Albert served in Canada, England, and France. He came to London, Ontario from Kansas in the United States to enlist in the Canadian Forces on July 5, 1917. He embarked Canada on December 18, 1917, and disembarked in Glasgow, Scotland on December 31, 1917. He disembarked in France on March 18, 1918, for service with the 7th Regiment, 1st Canadian Battalion. On September 27, 1918, at Cambrai, France, he was severely wounded in both legs and right thigh, the result of a gunshot or gun shrapnel wound from a shell. On October 3, 1918, his right leg was amputated. Following treatment in England, he was invalided to Canada where treatment was continued in Toronto, Ontario, until May 27, 1920. He was given a medical discharge on June 5, 1920, in Toronto, Ontario. Albert died of cerebral haemorrhage and hypertension; his death attributed to his WWI military service. At the time of his death, Albert and his wife were living in Highland Cove, Yarmouth Co., NS.

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