----- Original Message ----- From: "paul thompson" <p.thompson23@ntlworld.com> To: <leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [LEI] Albert Hooke > Thank you all for the replys and help just wondered where Albert fought > ect.Any army history buffs out there? he was in the 1/5th battalion > Regards > Paul Thompson > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> > To: <leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com>; "leicestershire web site" > <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:38 PM > Subject: Re: [LEI] Albert Hooke > > >> Hi Paul >> >> My grandfather died on the 24th November 1918 of the influenza pandemic >> which swept the World killing up to 50,000,000 (staggering figures I am >> sure >> you would agree) >> >> I wondered if your man suffered the same fate but have now found him on >> Ancestrys newly released Soldiers that Died in the Great War >> >> Name: Albert Edward Hooke >> Birth Place: Anstey, Leics >> Residence: Loughborough, Leics >> Death Date: 25 Oct 1918 >> Enlistment Location: Anstey, Leics >> Rank: Private >> Regiment: Leicestershire Regiment >> Battalion: 1/5th Battalion. >> Number: 202527 >> Type of Casualty: Died of wounds >> Theater of War: Aldershot >> >> >> The death cert "might" give you a clue but probably won't >> >> Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) >> >> >> >>>I am trying to find out a litle about my Grandma,s brother who served in >>>the Leicestershire Regerment. >>> Name Albert Edward Hooke >>> Private 202527 >>> Died 25/10/1918 >>> Buried St Sever Cemetery Extension Rouen Ref S .11.FF.6 >>> Could anybody help me please to find out how he got injured Rouen i have >>> been told is behind the lines he could have died in hospital. >>> Thank you very much Paul Thompson Leicester home of The Tigers. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1807 - Release Date: 23/11/2008 > 10:59 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.9.9/1807 - Release Date: 23/11/2008 10:59