This name is on the St John's Church Memorial, Clapham Road, London SW9
(Albert Alfred Everard Light)
Lance Corporal, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 10th Battalion
Service no. 207879
Died of wounds on 31 October 1917, aged 18
CWGC: "Son of John and Emily Light, of 24, Potters Lane, Basingstoke."
Lived in Clapham; enlisted in Clapham
Remembered at Zuydcoote Military Cemetery, Nord, France
("In the autumn of 1917, while the XV Corps was holding the Nieuport section, the 34th and 36th Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Zuydcoote. The Military Cemetery contains, for the most part, the graves of officers and men who died in these hospitals.")
Brother of Arthur Light, who is also remembered at St John's.
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911, Albert Light and his brother Arthur, then 11 and 12, were living with their parents John and Emily (given as Fanny on the census return) Light at 184 Larkhall Rise, Clapham. John Knight, 43, was an Army pensioner now working as a hotel manager. He was from Emsworth in Hampshire. Emily, 36, was from St Leonard's, Sussex. Albert was born in Edinburgh.