Born: 1890, Shipley
Died: 12 May 1918 in prisoner of war camp
Buried: Rue St Petillion, Fleurbaix
Address: 10 Maddock Street, Shipley
Parents: George and Mary Ann
Spouse: Elizabeth, nee Midgley
Siblings: George
Occupation: Bricklayer’s labourer
Organisations/clubs: Shipley Celtic FC
Military
Rank: Pte
Medals/awards:
Rolls of Honour: Christchurch, Windhill; St Paul’s, Shipley
Children: Harry, George, Bob
Regiment: Royal Scots Fusiliers
Albert Gould
Thanks to information from Albert’s
great nephew, Joseph Cooper,
Colin Coates’ Saltaire website (link
below) we know quite a lot about
Albert’s war.
The following cuttings from the
Shipley Times & Express are also
helpful.
The first was published on 24
March 1916 and is an extract from
a larger piece about nine relatives
of Mrs George Gould who were
serving.
Another brother-in-law, Pte Albert
Gould, Royal Scots Fusiliers,
enlisted on March 1st, 1915 and
has been about eight months in
France. He was recently wounded
in the knee and is now in
the Wharncliffe War
Hospital, Sheffield.
He is well-known in local
sporting circles and has
played with the Shipley
Celtic Football Club for
several seasons. He was
formerly engineman at
the Redbeck Mills.
Albert returned to the
front after recovering from his
injury but on 31 May 1918 the
newpaper reported:
Mrs Gould, who lives at 10
Maddock Street, Shipley, has been
informed that her
husband, Pte Albert
Gould, Royal Scots
Fusiliers, is wounded and
missing as from 10th
April, and she would be
glad of any information to
the above address.
An engineer at Crabtree’s
Mills, Shipley, he enlisted
on 26th February 1915.
He was at the front the
following July and in
February 1916 he was wounded
through a knee.
This kept him in England for 15
months. He returned to the front in
May of last year.
And on 4 October 1918, just before
the armistice, this appeared:
Pte Albert Gould, Royal Scots
Fusiliers, aged 28, whose wife lives
at 10 Maddocks Street, Shipley, and
who was wounded and taken a
prisoner of war on 10th April 1918,
died of wounds in a German camp
on 6th May.
He was employed at Crabtree’s Red
Beck Mills, Shipley, previous to
enlisting on 26th February 1915
and had been wounded twice. He
played football with the Shipley
Celtic’s for several seasons.
One of his brothers was killed two
years ago and another brother and a
nephew are now serving in France.
