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Old 08-06-15, 07:05
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Default (62) Albert Edward Paxton, Private 57232 15th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers

62nd of the Old Boys of St Wilfrid's School, Haywards Heath to lose his life in WW1.

Albert was born in Haywards Heath in 1899 to Ada Paxton, in 1901 he was living with his mother, who was a laundress, and his grandparents at 7 Hollybank Cottages, Triangle Road. By 1911 his mother had married a bricklayer called Joseph Pattenden and Albert is described as a son before marriage, they lived next to his grandparents at 6 Hollybank Cottages. Two little brothers Percival and Joseph came along in 1912 and 1914, and in 1916 a little sister called May.

Later, Albert worked at the Thermogene Factory in Queens Road, Thermogene being wadding impregnated with medication which it was claimed helped all sorts of illnesses. Albert enlisted in the army at Brighton and died of wounds in France on 16 May 1918 aged 19. He is buried at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, grave VIII. O. 10.

Later that year a report in the local paper mentions his mother on a list of people who attended the funeral of Leon Austen whom the family would have known as the Austen family ran the Heath Hotel on the corner of Triangle Road.

Albert's mother Ada was sent his effects of £3 1s 3d on 11th October 1918 and a War Gratuity of £3 on 20th November 1919.
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