Albert Edward's Story.
Birkenhead News 24 February 1917His Last Leave.
Well-known South-Ender comes Home to Die.
We regret to record the death under particularly tragic circumstances, at the early age of 32 years, of Private Albert Edward Gee, of the R.A.M.C., whose home is at 9, Leigh Road, New Ferry, where his wife and five children reside. Private Gee, who was a very well-known and respected resident of New Ferry, joined the army at the very outbreak of war. He was then a member of the Port Sunlight Company of the St. John’s Ambulance Brigade, and when the call came for hospital nurses Private Gee was one the first to respond, under Mr. Atkinson. He was sent to Cambridge Hospital where he had been for over two years nursing the wounded, and some few months ago he was transferred to Aldershot to complete his final training previous to going out to France. On Tuesday of last week he came home for his last leave before proceeding abroad, and was in the midst of enjoying himself amongst his family and friends when he was stricken with illness. Septic pneumonia developed and the sufferer was taken to the Cottage Hospital, Port Sunlight. There everything possible was done for him. [Newspaper illegible here] Private Gee passed away on Tuesday, just one week after coming home. He will be buried today at Bebington Cemetery at 2.30.
Private Gee was a faithful employee of Messrs. Lever Bros., in whose service he had been since leaving school. For the last 12 years he was in the tin printing department, where he was held by his fellow workers in the greatest respect. To his father and mother, who reside at No. 4, Circular Drive, Port Sunlight, this is the second blow that they have received during the war, as their third son, Private James Henry Gee, was killed in action at the Dardanelles in August, 1915. He was also in the R.A.M.C., and a full account of his death appeared in the “News” of September 22nd, 1915, with photo. Mrs. Gee has also lost her nephew in the great war, Private Will Jones, who was killed in action on December 2nd, 1914. Their eldest son is also serving his country with the R.G.A. at the front.