Albert Osterberg

Rifleman Albert John Osterberg was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1884, at Mile End, the son of Swedish-born general labourer John Ludwig and Emily Fanny Osterberg (née Blackmore), of Poplar. At the time of the 1911 census, Osterberg had married Ada Mary Pursell and was working as a dental mechanic.
Osterberg died on 20 September 1917, in the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge during the Ypres Offensive), while serving on the Western Front with the 16th (Service) Battalion (St Pancras), The Prince Consort's Own (Rifle Brigade). A brother, Charles, had died in January whilst a gunner with the Royal Field Artillery.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Osterberg, Albert John, cwgc.org. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
Category:1884 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Swedish descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
Category:Rifleman