Lees, Albert
photo from Pam Collington, his great granddaughter
A. LEES
Albert Lees
Driver, Army Service Corps
Born 25th December 1882 at Scotton
Son of Mary Frances (nee Skinner of Scunthorpe)
Mother moved from Scunthorpe after the death of her husband Robert (a foreman of iron mines from Dukenfield, Cheshire)
Went to Gringley-on-the-Hill and became a waggoner on a farm
Half brother Private Robert Skinner Lees, Coldstream Guards died in 1901 aged 23; death registered at Westminster
Married Annie ('Ann') Moore of Sturton-le-Steeple in 1902 probably at Gainsborough
Children were Mary Eva (born 1903), Robert Skinner (1905), George Albert (1907), Ivy Maisie (1915), Edna G. (1919) and Henry G. (1920)
Lived at 1 Ebenezer Place, Morton
Ann worked in a Gainsborough munitions factory during the Great War
First went to Bristol while in the Army
Looked after horses
Albert and Ann divorced and in the following years they both remarried
Probably married Susan E. Grice at Bristol in 1923
Placed daughter Mary at Red Maids' School, Bristol
Lived at Horfield near Bristol
Son D/J 106862 Able Seaman George Albert Lees killed aboard H.M.S. Diamond on 27th April 1941
Ship was a destroyer sunk by German dive bomber aircraft during the evacuation of Greece
Remembered as ‘a nice gentleman'
Died in 1951 aged 68
Buried with his wife in the grounds of Canford Crematorium at Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol
Mother buried in Scotter churchyard
Half brother of Fred