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Albert Griffiths was the son of Richard and Ellen Griffiths of Burntwood, baptised at St. Matthew’s 5th July 1885. In the census of 1891, the family was living at the Grandstand with Richard 38, Ellen 39, Arthur 12, William 10, Albert 5, Frederick 3, and Ernest 7 months. Ellen Griffiths died in 1900. In the next census of 1901, the family was still at Burntwood. Richard Griffiths was 48, a widower and a licensed victualler at the Grandstand. The listed children were Arthur 22, Albert 15, Fred 13 and Ernest 10. In 1911 Richard was proprietor of the Pied Bull, Lane End and had remarried to Elizabeth Charlotte. In 1911, Albert was living as an asylum attendant at the Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum, Upton, Cheshire.
Albert Griffiths married Vida Mercer in August 1917. Her address in military records was 31, Village Road, Higher Bebbington, Cheshire. Vida married John William Abel in 1918 and died in 1982 in Birkenhead.
Albert served in Gallipoli arriving there on the 28th of June 1915. He died of wounds on the 20th of September 1917 near Ypres at the time of the battle of Passchendaele. It seems that he died only a matter of weeks after he was married.