Albert Henry Jones was born in Camden Town, Middlesex in the Spring of 1882 the sixth child born to William Jones and Eliza Bowen. William and Eliza had eight children in total: Charles, Florence, Alice, William, Eleanor, Albert, Edith and Frederick.

In 1891 Albert’s family lived on Arundel Square in Islington, London where his father at the age of forty-six was a ‘G.P.O. Pensioner’. By 1901 the family had moved to Camden Street in Camden Town and nineteen-year-old Albert was working as a ‘Cabinet Maker’. It is likely that he was still indentured as an apprentice learning this highly skilled trade, possibly with a year left to serve.

Albert moved to Hemel Hempstead shortly after 1901 and started work with John Dickinson & Co. Limited at Apsley Mills. Whilst there he met Agnes Rose Barford, a ‘Printer’s Machinist’ at Dickinsons and in late 1905 they were married. Albert and Rose had three children together; Leslie Albert born in 1907, Margery Rose born in 1909 and Alfred born in 1913.

Albert volunteered for service under the Group (Derby) Scheme at the end of 1915. He attested at Watford in November and enlisted with the Royal Engineers, where his carpentry skills were a valuable asset, and was assigned to the 2nd Field Company. The Company came under the orders of the 8th Division and when he had completed his basic training Albert went to France.

The Royal Engineers carried out a number of different roles for the army both in the battlefield and along the lines of communication. The various specialisms were organised into different types of units. There were two sections to a field company, mounted and dismounted, and Albert was posted to the latter section. The dismounted section typically consisted of many kinds of trades required by the army in the field, and included  fifteen Blacksmiths, twenty Bricklayers, forty Carpenters, five Clerks, twelve Masons, six Painters, eight Plumbers, along with surveyors, draughtsmen, wheelwrights, engine drivers amongst others.

Records do not reveal the date he disembarked in France, but in all likelihood, he went in May 1916 and as a result saw action at the Battle of Albert on the Somme in July 1916. By October the 8th Division was near the Hohenzollern Redoubt close to Loos-en-Gohelle and the Engineers were engaged in trench repair, boarding, digging sumps and sinking wells amongst other work. This involved activity in both Front Line and Support Trenches and exposed the Sappers to the same risks as other battalion troops.

It is not known how Albert was killed but he died when engaged in work on or near the Front Line on Friday, 6th October 1916.

Agnes, with three young children to raise, was granted a widow's pension and remarried in December 1917 to a serving soldier, Thomas Needham.

He was commemorated on the John Dickinson & Co. Limited war Memorial in Apsley and in St Mary’s church in the village.

Albert is Remembered with Honour in Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas-de-Calais, France, where he is interred in Grave I.G.17.

He was 34 years old when he died.

Albert was entitled to the British War Medal and the Allied Victory Medal.