Albert Edward Love

Born in 1899, he joined the DLI in 1917 and fought on the Western Front where in 1918 he was wounded in the leg by shrapnel and taken prisoner. He re-enlisted in 1919 and served with the 2nd Battalion DLI in India, China and the Sudan before being discharged in 1939.

He was then commissioned, as Lieutenant & Quartermaster, with the 9th (Territorial) Battalion DLI at Gateshead and served with them throughout WW2 until he returned home in December 1944. He was Mentioned in Despatches in 1940 and was awarded the Military Cross in the same action at Mersa Matruh in June 1942 in which Adam Wakenshaw won his posthumous Victoria Cross. Albert Love died at Romford in Essex in 1980, aged 81.