Albert Eccles, Acting Leading Seaman, P/SSX 22229, was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire on August 24th, 1920. He was the son of a coal miner, Albert Eccles, who died in early 1941, and his wife, Frances, née Geary, who died in 1944. In 1940, Albert married Gertrude Edna Talbot. She re-married in 1946.