Private Albert Wilson lived at 37 Redoubt Street, Radford, Nottingham. He was working at Raleigh Cycles at age 17, in May 1912, when he enlisted with The Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire) Regiment. 

  He served during the Great War (1914-18) and was part of the No. 4 Platoon “A” Company, of the 1/7th Battalion (Robin Hoods) in February 1915; they landed in France on the 25th.  

 On the 13th of October 1915 Albert took part in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, where he was killed in action. He has no known grave but is commemorated at the Loos Memorial in France.