Private Albert Waterhouse DCM
8885 4th Kings Royal Rifle Corps
Killed in Action 27th June 1915
Lived at 3 Lebanon Street
Buried in Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery, France -C.24.
Burnley Express 14/7/1915 (wrongly named as Waterworth)

London Gazette 5th August 1915 page 7717

"For conspicuous gallantry on the 9th May 1915, at Bellewaarde Lake. After the Regimental Dressing Station had been removed to Wittepoort Farm, a distance of about half a mile,he volunteered to remain with four wounded men and try and get them away.He carried two men a distance of 200 yards across the open, under a very heavy fire to safety,and, obtaining assistance, he succeeded in bringing in the remaining two wounded men"