Lance Corporal Albert MAINS
1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment ‘A’ Company 3/11110
3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment 8401
Albert Mains was born in Northampton on 3 February 1890 to William Mains, a boot and shoe finisher, and his wife Annie. Annie died while Albert was still a boy and he went to live with his aunt and uncle, Edwin and Mary Astell, in Spratton and attended the village primary school. When he left school he returned to Northampton to live with his widowed father, his brother, two sisters and an aunt in 48 Cleveland Road. Albert became a baker.
He joined the Northamptonshire Regiment in October 1914 and was sent overseas with the British Expeditionary Force a month later. He was seriously wounded in the spring of 1915 and sent home to England until June 1915 when he returned to the fighting in France. He received a gunshot wound to the head in October 1915 and a few days later returned to England. Once again he was sent back to the fighting until he was wounded for the third time in January 1917. This time he remained in England and was transferred to the Army Reserve in June 1917. In August 1917 he received the Silver War Badge to wear at home to show he had been wounded in the war. He was finally discharged from the army on 30 January 1918. He had married in September 1911 and he and his wife, Florence Ada, and their two children, moved to Bedfordshire.
Albert received the 1914 Star and Clasp, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal. He died on 28 September 1953 in the Sanatorium at Hollowell.
Silver War Badge
Silver War Badge
EXPLORE SECTIONS
MEN WHO SERVED
- Private Charles Herbert AUSTIN (known as Herbert)
- Corporal Frank AUSTIN
- Lance Corporal James William AUSTIN
- Private John Samuel AUSTIN
- Sergeant William Henry AUSTIN
- Sergeant Bertie Henry BALDERSON
- Corporal Frederick Charles BALDERSON MM
- Lance Corporal Robert Samuel BALDERSON
- Private George William BUCKBY (known as William)
- Private Henry Andrew BUCKBY
- Richard Henry Horne BUCKBY
- Transport Sergeant Thomas BUCKBY MM
- Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Gander BUCKBY
- William Archibald COPSON (known as Archibald)
- Sapper Ebenezer COPSON
- Private Ernest Edward COPSON
- Pioneer Henry Owman COPSON (known as Harry)
- Private James COPSON
- Private John William COPSON
- Private Joseph COPSON
- Private Arthur Sidney GOODEN (known as Sidney)
- Private Hugh Henry GOODEN
- Sergeant Joseph Eric GOODEN (known as Eric)
- Private Arthur Thomas HAYTER
- Driver Frank Leonard HAYTER
- Private Harold Herbert HAYTER
- Lance Corporal John Charles HAYTER DCM (known as Jack)
- Private Walter Ernest HAYTER
- Ordinary Seaman Arthur Charles HORNE
- Private John William HORNE (known as William)
- Lance Corporal Lewis HORNE
- Private Thomas HORNE
- Driver John Henry LEESON
- Corporal Joseph Henry LEESON (known as Harry)
- Thomas Baden Powell LEESON (known as ‘Bard’)
- Private Albert MANNING
- Corporal Amos MANNING
- Private Arthur Cecil MANNING
- Private George MANNING
- Sergeant George William MANNING
- Sapper Henry Stanley MANNING (known as Stanley)
- Private John Thomas MANNING
- Private John William MANNING
- Air Mechanic Nathaniel MANNING
- Driver/Saddler Samuel MANNING
- Gunner George Albert MARTIN
- Private Joseph MARTIN
- Private Thomas Henry MARTIN (known as Harry)
- Private Thomas Walter MARTIN (known as Walter)
- Pioneer Walter Ernest MARTIN
- Sergeant William Higgs MARTIN, DCM
- Private Arthur Walter PAGE
- Private Francis Samuel PAGE (known as Sam)
- Private Frank PAGE
- Private Stephen PAGE
- Lieutenant George REEVE MC MM
- Private Richard Henry REEVE (known as Harry)
- Private Samuel REEVE
- Private Sidney Philip REEVE
- Private Frederick Thomas RICHARDSON
- Private John William RICHARDSON
- Private Percy John Partridge RICHARDSON
- Private Abraham Bert SMITH
- Private Alfred SMITH
- Private Frank SMITH 46648
- Private John Samuel SMITH
- Private John William SMITH (6942)
- Private John William (William John) SMITH (8964)
- Private Charles Walter WADHAMS
- Private John Edward WADHAMS
- Private Thomas Edwin WADHAMS
- Private William WADHAMS