Bringing Uncle Albert Home

Private Albert Turley, was just an ordinary British soldier of the First World War. He died on the Somme for King and Country. He didn't win any medals for gallantry and has no known grave. Like thousands more soldiers, he left neither letters nor diaries from which to reconstruct his story. This is the story of one man's search for his distant relative, describing Private Turley's active service with the 3rd Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment that led to his death in one of the most infamous