Albert Henry Gort
Albert Henry Gort (1890-1918)
1919 Obituary [1]
Lieut. ALBERT HENRY GORT, Northamptonshire Regiment, was born at Felixstowe on 30th January 1890.
He was educated at the Ipswich Middle School and at the Regent Street Polytechnic, London.
His apprenticeship was served at the Metropolitan Railway Works, Neasden, where he passed through the various departments and the drawing office.
Owing to the illness of his father, he returned to Felixstowe to take charge of their coach building and transport work, and in September 1914, he joined the Suffolk Yeomanry, going to the Dardanelles as a machine gunner.
Having being invalided home, he was given a Commission in the Northamptonshire Regiment, and placed on anti-aircraft service at Sheerness, after which he was sent to various stations to learn the working of prisoners-of-war camps.
He was then appointed to the Eastern Command, and fitted up camps at Saffron Walden, Stanstead, Standon, and Bishop's Stortford, of which he was appointed Camp Commandant.
His death took place at Cambridge, from pneumonia, following influenza, on 5th November 1918, in his twenty-ninth year.
He became a Graduate of this Institution in 1908.