Year of birth: 1897

Place of birth: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Country: England, United Kingdom

Force: British Expeditionary Force

Rank: Private

Service number: 70768

Units:  —  Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), 1st Bn.  (Last known unit)

Date of death: 24/11/1917

Place of death: Lijssenthoek, Remy Siding Casualty Clearing Stations, Belgium

Cause of death: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Age: 20

British War Medal Medal

Victory Medal Medal

Potter Albert Victor was a private of the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment), part of the 24th Brigade, 8th Division. On the 17th of November 1917 the Sherwood Foresters moved by rail and road to Brandhoek, and from the 19th on to Wieltje, going almost immediately from there up to the front line as supporting battalion in the sector just north of Passchendaele (B-company: V30.c.9.3, D-company: V30.d.2.8). On the following day the Battalion was holding the line and was subjected to very heavy shelling, which caused approximately 90 casualties. Probably, Albert was one of them. He wasn’t killed by the shelling, but severely wounded. He was taken to the 3rd Australian or 44th Casualty Clearing Station on the west of Poperinge where he died of his wounds on 24 November 1917.

24 Infantry Brigade: 1 Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire), (The National Archives, KEW (TNA) , WO 95/1721/3). https://nationalarchives.gov.uk Sources used

Wylly H.C., The 1st and 2nd Battalions the Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) in the Great War,, ( Aldershot, Gale & Polden, s.d., 2004). Sources used

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/137301

Namenlijst (In Flanders Fields Museum) https://namenlijst.org/publicsearch/#/person/_id=ea4e3424-a6dd-4e55-a9c1-b1a2ec295f08

Lives of the First World War (Imperial War Museum) https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/3562596