Private Albert Hollinrake MM
51631 6th Lancashire Fusiliers
Lived at 1 Clive Street

London Gazette 17th June 1919

1/3rd East Lancashire Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps.

Awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 12 December 1917.
6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. Formerly served in the Royal Army Medical Corps (#101948). Possibly attached to 199th Trench Mortar Battery when he won his Military Medal.

Awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 17 June 1919 (Peace Gazette number 63). Shown as Hollindrake.

Hollinrake was a native of Burnley, Lancashire.

Born on the 27 August 1893 at Burnley, Lancashire.

On the 1911 census he was living at 1, Clive Street, Burnley, Lancashire.

His brother, Wilfred was killed in action on the 15 November 1916 whilst serving with the King's Royal Rifle Corps. Another brother, Daniel Edwin, was severely wounded whilst serving with the 1/6th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, on recovery he was sent to serve with the South Lancashire Regiment.

On the 1921 census he was living on Whin's Lane, Simonstone, Lancashire, a grocer's assistant at the Co-op, Burnley.

On the 1939 register he was living at Lower Trapp Farm, Simonstone, Lancashire, with his wife Doris, (born 23 June 1899), he was employed as a grocer's assistant.

Thought to have died in October 1961, death registered at Haslingden, Lancashire.

Initially served in Salonika with the R.A.M.C., before transferring to the Lancashire Fusiliers, in addition to his Military Medal he entitled to the British War and Victory Medals.

(Courtesy of Dave Ingham)