GEORGE, William Jacob
Credit: UnknownLance Corporal
1st Battalion
Honourable Artillery Company
William was born 1895 in Newport to William Lock & Louisa Fredrica (nee MATHIAS) GEORGE. William’s father predeceased him & Louisa was living at 107 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead in London around the time of William’s death.
William, aged 21, Died of Wounds on the 17th of February 1917 & rests beneath a Commission Headstone, in a Joint Grave with Private HC CULLEN, bearing the Family Inscription: “OH DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING OH GRAVE WHERE IS THY VICTORY THY WILL, NOT MINE BE DONE”. Alongside 1,218 of his First World War comrades in the Varennes Military Cemetery, Somme France.
William is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.
