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The Roll lists his address as 32 Bread Street.
(CWGC records that Private Albert Sydney Rimes, regimental number 17723, died aged 25 on 25/3/1918 serving in 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, and is commemorated on Pozieres Memorial in France. They record him as the son of Walter and Ethel Rimes of 32 Bread Street, Peterborough. Soldiers Died in the Great War records Albert as a native of Churwell, Yorkshire who enlisted in Peterborough and was killed in action on 25/3/1918; it records only his service in the 7th Battalion. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Albert's mother Sarah E Rimes was his legatee. Albert Sydney Rimes' birth was registered in the Holbeck District in Yorkshire in 1892. When he was baptised on 7/5/1893 at St Peter's Church in Morley, West Yorkshire, the register was noted that he was the son of Walter and Sarah Ethel Rimes of 15 Primrose Walk, Churwell. On the 1901 census he was living with his parents at 11 Tower Street in Fletton, Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was living with his parents at 32 Bread Street, Peterborough. Albert's Army pension file records that he enlisted on 16/2/1910 as a Driver in the Northamptonshire Battery of the Royal Field Artillery under regimental number 4161; he gave his age as 17 years, his place of birth as Churwell, and his current address as 31 Tower Street, New Fletton. Having served his 4 year term, he left the RFA on 15/2/1914. His Army service file records that he later enlisted on 24/10/1914 as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers under regimental number 36335, stating that he had formerly served in the East Anglian Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery (Territorials), and giving his next of kin as his mother Sarah Ethel Rimes of 32 Bread Street, New Fletton, Peterborough. He was immediately promoted to Corporal in the Royal Engineers. The Army file records that he was in Signal Squadron of the 2nd Mounted Division when he was discharged from the Royal Engineers on 23/3/1915 at Gunton Hall in Norfolk, due to having "irregularly enlisted". Although his later Army service file has not survived, Albert evidently then re-enlisted and was posted to the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment under regimental number 17723. The Medal Rolls record that he went to France on 1/9/1915 serving in the 7th Battalion. When Albert's death was announced in the Peterborough Advertiser on 20/4/1918, he was reported to have previously been wounded at the Battle of Loos in September 1915, and again at Menin Road in July 1917. A letter from his brother was quoted as stating that, having made enquiries regarding Albert's fate, he had been informed by eye-witnesses that on 25th March 1918 Albert was in a party that was led into a death trap position, and that one of Albert's friends (named as "Bill Poole"*) was shot in both legs. Albert went to help him, but was shot through the head and died instantly. (*Corporal William Poole of the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 17551, was taken Prisoner of War; he died in captivity from his wounds on 31/7/1918, and is named on the Peterborough Roll of Honour).