Current Information:

Age-27

3, Bowers Parade, Ealing Roa, Wembley

Born-Kensington

Mont Huon Military Cemetery, Le Treport, France

On 31st May, 1918, the 18th Lancashire Fusiliers battalion of 104 Brigade, 35th Division left Hédauville and moved towards the front to take part in an attack on Aveluy Wood, to the north of the town of Albert on the Somme battlefield. On the following day, 1st June, 1918, the attack was launched and although they managed to reach their objective they suffered over two hundred casualties in doing so and  were unable to hold on to their gains. That evening they were relieved and moved back to Hédauville. On 5th June they moved forward again, this time into reserve positions at Bouzincourt. Here they stayed for four days under shell fire providing working parties for various tasks. On 9th June they took over the front line trenches, where they stayed, again under heavy shelling until relieved on 13th June on which day they took up support positions on the Purple Line.  Albert Gukenbiehl died from wounds on 19th June, after having been taken back to a base hospital on the coast and it is likely that he was wounded at some stage during these operations.