Private Albert Edouard Alexandré
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

Chevalier Légion d'Honneur
(1999)

Albert was born in Jersey, orphaned, lived with family members before moving to Alderney, to live with a distant relative, where he worked in the stone quarries from age 14.

He travelled to France with a reinforcement draft (R12), just in time for the Regiments first Battle at Cambrai in November 1917. He was conscripted, aged 16 years old.

He passed away in January 2002, aged 100 years.

"If we need a reason, to do what we do" he said to me over lunch one day in the dining hall at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, "Do not let people forget what we went through"