Royal Airforce, Service no. 46737
Born: 17th April 1895. Died: 21st November 1952.
Story
Albert was baptised at the Kippax Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Kippax on 12th May 1895. He was the son of Kippax Station Master William Robinson Tebb (27/06/1863 – 02/01/1942, pictured below), and Clara Ann Hick (1865-1940). His grandfather William Tebb, was the Station Master at Crossgates, and his grandmother Sarah Grace Best, died falling out of a low window in her Bridlington nursing home at the age of 84. Albert was an Electrician, and enlisted on 19th October 1914. He was 5ft 11 inches tall, and joined the Royal Flying Corps on 3rd August 1916, before transferring to the Royal Air Force on 1st April 1918. On 14th September 1917, he wrote home: “Please convey to the boys at the Angel Inn very best thanks: the bit of Army pay goes such a little way.”
After the War, Albert married Ellen Dickinson in 1923, and lived at 10 Tatefield Place, Kippax. On 4th June 1925, the couple travelled on the SS Barrabool to Australia. In 1939, they were living at 30 Stockers Lane Surrey, with Albert working as an Electrical Engineer. He passed away, aged 57, at Chertsey hospital after living at 36 Stockers Lane, Kingsfield, Woking, and left an estate worth £901 4s 5d. Below: Aerial bombardment, whilst under shrapnel attack.
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