Curtis, Pvt. Albert Edward b. January 6, 1866 d. March 18, 1940 British Victoria Cross recipient. Albert Edward Curtis was born in Guildford, in Surrey. He began his military career with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders but, in 1893, transferred to the 2nd. Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. On the 23rd. February 1900 at Onderbank Spruit in South Africa, during the Boer War, a British Colonel, R. Harris, was severely wounded, and was left all day in the open under fire from some Boers, who shot him a further eight or nine times. After several...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine) Bells Hill Cemetery, Barnet, Greater London, England Plot: B5 435
b. January 6, 1866 d. March 18, 1940