ALBERT SNELL
4800317 Lance Corporal, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

photo from Dorothy Keal, daughter of his sister Florence
died on 16th January 1944 aged 30.
Albert was born in Scotton on 28th June 1913, the son of John William and Ann (Annie) Elizabeth Snell (nee Skelton). His elder brothers and sisters were Florence Ivy, Wilfred, Florence Ivy, Alice and Edith while his younger brother Willy was known as Bill.
It is possible their mother died very soon after the birth of Bill at the age of 36.
When Florence married Samuel Page in 1925 they set up home in Scotterthorpe and Albert and Bill went to live with them. The house was on Sennefleet Road opposite the junction with Scotterthorpe Road. Later the Page's had a daughter they named Dorothy.
In the picture above he can be seen holding his pipe and the two chevrons on his left arm sleeve woulld have been awarded for 6 years good conduct in the Army. During that time he would return home on leave to Scotterthorpe.
The 2nd Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment were part of the 9th Infantry Brigade, 3rd Division, Second Corps of the British Expeditionary Force.
In 1940 they were involved in the battles preceding the evacuation at Dunkirk. Although the last of Allied armies were taken off the beaches on 4th June, he was 'at large' for a further 4 days before being captured at Forges, Normandy.
He was one of the 30,000 taken prisoner by the Germans in this campaign. There were no camps in the west so prisoners were marched on foot all the way across Europe to their final destinations.
He was detained in Poland as prisoner 5853 in Stalag XXIB prison camp at Schubin (now Szubin). On 11th April 1941 he was transferred to Stalag XXID at Posen (now Poznan).
Finally on 9th September 1943 he was moved to Stalag IVA at Elsterhorst near Hoyerswerda, Saxony, Germany.
After spending more than 3 years in captivity he contracted tuberculosis. Some prisoners were given a medical repatriation but he died from the disease at Reserve Lazarett Elsterhorst-Hoyerswerda, a military hospital. There he was buried.

In 1945 Lance Corporal Albert Snell was re-interred in the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery.
After the cessation of hostilities many men in other graves were brought to this cemetery.
The great majority were airmen lost in the air raids over Berlin and the eastern cities.
The rest were men like Albert who died as prisoners of war.
WILLIAM HOLLAND
12027 Corporal, 8th (Service) Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
GEORGE WILLIAM FITCHETT
13356 Private, 10th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment
RICHARD PERCIVAL EMINSON
222599 Gunner, 2nd Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Guards)
SYDNEY JOHNSON
15294 Private, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
ROBERT ASTLEY FRANKLIN EMINSON
Second Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps attached to 2nd Brigade Machine Gun Corps
GEORGE ROWLAND KING
4055 Private, 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
WILLIAM STORM JACKSON
6665 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own); 307694 Rifleman, 1st/8th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wale's Own)
JOSEPH ROBINSON
203385 Corporal, 10th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment)
HERBERT EMINSON
5197 Private, 3/8th Reserve Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottingham & Derbyshire Regiment); 203395 Private, 15th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment)
FRANCIS JOHN FOSTER
23035 Private, āCā Company, 4th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment; 23035 Private, 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment
ALBERT PICKSLEY
31620 Private, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
ARTHUR CLAYTON
82116 Private, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment; 19484 Private, 7th Battalion, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment); 405343 Private 865th Company, Labour Corps
WALTER SLEIGHT
6198 Private, 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
ROBERT RONALD BELL
567353 Flight Sergeant (Rear Gunner), 97 Squadron, Royal Air Force
ALBERT BIRKETT
RME/10039 Marine, Royal Marine Engineers, H.M.S. Highflyer (Shore Establishments)
DEREK CHARLES GRAY CLINKARD
39855 Flying Officer (Pilot), 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force
JOHN DENNIS EDGAR
4804077 Serjeant, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
HAROLD KING
2655491 Guardsman, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards
RONALD WILLIAM LEEKE
P/JX 154364 Leading Signalman, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Aurora
CHARLES ROY WILKINSON
C/SKX 1525 Stoker 2nd Class, Royal Navy, H.M.S. Vimiera
LAISTER COOK
Susworth's fallen hero of the Great War
The Fountain brothers
Other Great War casualties
In doing this research another 9 men have been found who lost their lives in the Great War and were associated with this parish.
A 4th Eminson cousin
Herbert Luther Eminson was also killed in the Great War.
Great War servicemen - side facing West
Arrand - Cottingham
Great War servicemen - side facing West
Eminson
Great War servicemen - side facing West
Holland - Lees
Great War servicemen - side facing South
Dawber - Nelson
Great War servicemen - side facing South
Osborne - Skelton
Great War servicemen - side facing East
Richards - Stutting
Great War servicemen - side facing East
Wakefield - Woods
SUSWORTH Great War servicemen
A forgotten heroine
A Scotter woman was a nurse in the French Red Cross. (Her name might have been wrongly transcribed when the memorial was refurbished in the 1980s)
Roll of Honour - March 1915
Roll of Honour - December 1915
Other Great War servicemen
More men have been found, associated with Scotter, who served in and survived the Great War but are not listed on the War Memorial.
Finally