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Albert Edward Lovejoy. Died 25th September 1915
Albert was born in 1892 in Warfield the son of John and Sarah (nee Maynard) He was their youngest son, they had 12 children. In 1911 Albert was working as a labourer like his father and elder brothers, the family lived at Buckell House, Binfield.
Albert joined the Royal Berkshire 
Regiment like so many local lads . He served in the 8th battalion and rose to the rank of Lance Corporal. He was killed during the battalion’s action in the battle of Loos.
His body was not recovered from the battlefield and his name is commemorated on the memorial to the missing there.
Name: LOVEJOY, ALBERT EDWARD
Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment/Service:
Royal Berkshire Regiment Unit Text:” C” Company. 8th Battalion.
Age: 23
Date of Death: 25/09/1915
Service No: 15604
Additional information: Son of Mrs. D. D. Allen (formerly Lovejoy), of 3, Council House, Hampstead Norris, Newbury, Berks, and the late J. Lovejoy.
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 93 to 95. Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL
3, Council House, Hampstead Norris, Newbury, Berks
Hello. I have just started to research the family of my son-in-law, Peter Luke Lovejoy. With the use of census returns and the BMD Index I very quickly got back to the Warfield area of Berkshire. Pete is the great, great grandson of Henry LOVEJOY who was the brother of John LOVEJOY and uncle of Edward Albert LOVEJOY who is commemorated on the Wokingham Memorial Plaque.
Henry LOVEJOY was born in the first quarter of 1853 at Warfield, Berkshire, the son of John LOVEJOY (c1821-1862) and his wife Jane BOWYER (c1826-1920) who had been married in the third quarter of 1849. Henry married Hannah Maria FARMER (1850-1912) in the third quarter of 1880. Hannah was born in Stoke, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire but by 1871 her parents, Thomas FARMER (c1815-1893) and his wife Maria JEFFERY (c1819-1897), had moved their family to Reading where they were living at 3 Ivy Court. Henry and Hannah and their family lived for some time in Warfield, then by 1911 they were living at Plough Lane, Wokingham.
John LOVEJOY (senior) died in 1862 and his widow Jane (nee BOWYER) married Thomas GILES in Reading in 1871. Unfortunately she was a widow again by the time of the 1881 census.
It looks as though Edward Albert LOVEJOY had two brothers who also lost their lives in the First World War. Besides Ernest George LOVEJOY who died on 6 November 1917, brother Sidney Arthur LOVEJOY also died, on 15 April 1917, only a few months after his marriage to Mary PROUD at the end of 1916.
Thank you to all the volunteers who have been involved in this website. I can see that a lot of work has gone into compiling the information about each of the men commemorated on the Wokingham Memorial Plaque. I have been involved in a similar project for memorials on the Isle of Wight. http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/
Hi Janet,many thanks for your contribution. The names of Bowyer and Giles are also placed on the Memorial and Mary Proud is on the above family tree. I was interested to read that you discovered three brothers were killed; we found Ernest and Edward, but not Sidney too. What a tragedy. If you would like me to make changes and/or add to the biography I would be delighted to do so.
Thanks also for your kind words,
Mike Churcher
Hi Mike, Sidney was killed during the Gallipoli campaign, he is buried in Alexandria.
Thank You. Would you please change the biographies to reflect the additional information.
You might be interested to know that Ernest and Albert LOVEJOY are listed in the Great War Memorial Book of the Central Council of Bell Ringers. http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/gtw/book/pages/index.php?name1=Leonard&name2=Luxom&type=gif&width=900&height=1170
There is also some additional information at –
Albert
http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/casualties/details.php?warID=1&casID=734448
Ernest
http://www.cccbr.org.uk/rolls/casualties/details.php?warID=1&casID=833221
A V LOADER of Wokingham is also listed on the same page of the Great War Memorial Book
Hi Janet, I hope the requested update is satisfactory. Regards, Mike Churcher
Hi Janet, I realise it’s been many years since this post and the additional posts since. I am a relative of the Lovejoys, I believe they are the uncles of my Grandmother. I have also been to visit the memorials in France/Belgium. It would be incredible to talk to you in relation to the family history.