Major Albert Julian PELL (1882)

4th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment; attached to General Staff, Western Command
Born 19 November 1863 at Ickenham Rectory, Uxbridge
Died on 28 August 1916, aged 52
Buried at St Peter’s Church, Wilburton, Cambridgeshire.

Albert Pell was the elder son of Revd Henry Beauchamp St John Pell, the Rector of Ickenham, Middlesex, and Julia Caroline Maria, née Tyndall. In 1897 he married Catherine Marion, née Greene; they had two daughters.

He was educated at Twyford School and Winchester College. He took his degree, in Jurisprudence, in 1887. After Oxford he was called to the bar by Lincoln’s Inn in 1890; served as Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire; and sat as Chairman of the Isle of Ely Quarter Sessions.

Already serving at the outbreak of war, he was gazetted to the General Staff in 1915. He served as Divisional Musketry Officer, Northern Area, Western Command.

He died suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage while going on duty in Tattenhall, Cheshire, on 28 August 1916.