Unlike many of the other men commemorated on the Filey memorial Albert had no connection with the town before until war broke out in 1914.  He joined the newly formed Huntingdonshire Cyclists Battalion, an army unit that was to be used specifically for defending the coastline in case of an invasion.  The ‘Gaspipe Cavalry’, as they are fondly remembered, were a group similar to the Home Guard of WWII and trained and were eventually stationed in Filey during the first half of the war.  Many of the men got to know local girls, and by the end of the war many of these couples had got married; at least four casualties commemorated on the memorial were Hunts. Cyclists who had married and decided to settle in Filey.

The Battalion was disbanded in 1916, and its troops were spread across many other units as reinforcements; Albert was sent to the 1^st/7^th Royal Warwickshire Regt. where he only lasted for a few months before dying of wounds  and being buried in Martinpuich Cemetery.

Albert’s wife, Lillian Eleanor Hall remarried within a year of his death to a Private Keeble and they lived at 5, The Avenue, the same address as where she had lived with Pte. Hall.