Albert Hansford was known as Albie and farmed, despite living at the Mason's Arms, the local pub in Shipton Gorge, which his family had occupied since the 1920s. He was the last surviving Patrol member and it was only in the last couple of years before his death that the story of the Patrol became more widely known.
The son of Ernest and Emmeline, he is buried in St Martins Churchyard, alongside his wife Ethel Mary who died in 2008.
Unit or location | Role | Posted from | until |
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Shipton Gorge Patrol | Patrol member | 10 Jun 1940 | 03 Dec 1944 |
Dairy farmer
Also known as Thomas, from Bernard Thorner
The National Archives file WO199/3390
1939 Register
Geoff Axford
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/3316323.HANSFORD/
www.opcdorset.org/ShiptonGorgeFiles/ShiptonGorgeMI.htm
www.burtonbradstock.org.uk/What's%20on/BVN/2009/2009%2001/2009_01web.pdf
https://funeral-notices.co.uk/notice/hansford/3669225