Rectory Lane Cemetery, Berkhamsted

Albert Edward Garrett was Born in Berkhamsted in 1897. He was the eldest of three children to Edward John and Mary Ann née Fountain. His father was a postman. They lived in Victoria Street and then Mills Street. When Albert left school, he followed his father and worked for the General Post Office as a Telegraph Messenger. As an employee of the GPO he joined their regiment as a rifleman in the war. Little is known of his time in the forces but he was still serving in the Autumn of 1919. His parents had moved to the cottage in the castle grounds and he joined them after he was demobilised when he worked as a taxi driver from Berkhamsted station. He died in 1929 aged 32 after being seriously ill for some considerable time.