SORRELL Albert Bernard

The birth of Albert Bernard Sorrell is registered in the March Quarter 1892 under the Pershore Registration District. In 1901 aged 8 he is living in Moor Village with his parents Henry and Florence, sisters Rose aged 16, Olive aged and brothers Edgar aged 10 and George aged 5. By 191 his father Henry is a widower still resident in Lower Moor with youngest son George aged 15. Bernard’s brother Edgar died aged 16 in 1907.

Other than the newspaper report below I can find no further records relating to this casualty despite trying spelling variations of his name. This includes the 1911 Census, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Soldiers Died in the Great War, Medal Index Roll, Army Pension Records and Civil Deaths.

Bernard Sorrell is mentioned in Berrow’s Worcester Journal, 24th July 1943 as part of a report on the Amphlett family in Pershore:
The Sorrell family, too, have a notable war record. The eldest son, the late Henry Sorrell, served throughout the last war as a Grenadier Guardsman; Bernard Sorrell, of the Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action and George Sorrell, of the Worcesters, lost his right leg in a battle out East and is now working for the County Council as a night watchman in the Pershore district.