Albert Edward's Story.
Birkenhead News 08 September 1917SON OF A SPECIAL CONSTABLE
Killed in Action.
Mr. and Mrs. Stredder, of 23, Hope Street, Birkenhead, have received the official notice and also a letter from a comrade to the effect that their eldest son, Pte. Albert Edward Stredder, of the South Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on the 2nd August. In the letter from his comrade he states that Pte. Stredder was killed by a German sniper, as also was his pal, who was close by him. Pte. Stredder had been a soldier twelve months last July. He was 22 years of age, and was before enlisting employed by Messrs. Cammell Lairds in their power station for five years. Mr Stredder is a special constable in the Borough Police Force.