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Corporal Albert Osborne

Albert Osborne was the son of William Alfred and Mirriam Louise Osborne, of Walworth, London.

Private Osborne enlisted into the Royal Fusiliers on the 7th March 1939, and was serving in the 9th Battalion when he volunteered for airborne forces in late 1940 or early 1941. This was when Britain only had a fledgling ‘Airborne’ unit, No 2 Commando, which later became the II S.A.S. Battalion. He did his Parachute Course in either late 1940 or early 1941. By late 1941 the battalion had been renamed and became the 1st Parachute Battalion, Army Air Corps, and was part of the 1st Parachute Brigade.

Albert originally served in the Anti-Tank Platoon and saw service in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy. Back in the U.K. by 1944, he had been promoted to Corporal and was a Section Second in Command in the Assault Platoon for Arnhem. Corporal Albert Osborne was killed in action on Thursday, 21st September 1944, in Oosterbeek as the battalion was forming part of ‘Lonsdale’ Force to hold the south-eastern part of the perimeter.

He died on 21 September 1944, aged 23 years

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Osborn, Albert Sherman

1858–1946
AMERICAN
QUESTIONED DOCUMENT EXAMINER

Albert Sherman Osborn was the first American to achieve prominence in the world of questioned document examination and forged document analysis. He authored Questioned Documents in 1910; it remains in print, and still stands as a seminal text in questioned document analysis. In 1937, near the end of his career (and not long from the end of his life), he published The Mind of the Juror as Judge of the Facts, or, The Laymen's View of the Law, another well-known forensics tome. Osborn was at the forefront of questioned document examination for more than 50 years, and was renowned for his success within the legal system as an expert witness and scholar. By the thoroughness and professionalism of his work, he was able to make significant headway with the court system's acceptance of expert testimony about forged documents as legal evidence in criminal trials . He founded the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners in 1942; this organization has continued to grow and expand in its resear

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Born: Albert Sherman Osborn 1858

Died: 1946 (aged 87–88)

Known pioneer and author in the field of Questioned Document Examination.

In North America, Albert Sherman Osborn is regarded as the father of the science of questioned document examination.

Questioned Documents, his primary work, was first published in 1910 and then significantly updated in a second edition in 1929. Other works, such as The Problem of Proof (1922), The Mind of the Juror (1937), and Questioned Document Problems (1944), were appreciated by the legal profession as well as public and private laboratories dealing with questioned documents.

On September 2, 1942, Osborn established the American Society of Questioned Document Examiners (ASQDE). In 1913, Osborn started inviting a few select practitioners to informal educational gatherings at his house, which eventually led to the founding of the ASQDE. He was the first president of the society and was deeply connected with the discipline and Society until his death four years later.

During his career, Osborn was involved in several high-profile cases, incl