JAMES, George Henry

Etaples Military Cemetery FranceCredit: CWGC

Second Lieutenant
3rd Battalion attached to 2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

George was born 1893 in Newport to George William & Henrietta Ann (nee SAUNDERS) JAMES of 24 Pyle Street, Newport. In 1916 at the United Methodist Chapel in Quay Street, Newport he married Ivy Irene BROWN & lived at Hope Cottage, Broadlands, Victoria Road in Newport.

George, aged 24, Died of Wounds on the 8th of May 1917 & is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery in France beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription: “BELOVED HUSBAND OF IVY JAMES GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN”. George rests alongside 10,770 of his First World War comrades, 35 of whom remain unidentified.

George is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.