Name
George William Alfred Farrow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
265386
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
IXA. D. 2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, 4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, Tilehouse St., Baptist Church War Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
George was the son of Mr and Mrs A.G. Farrow of Ducklands Farm, Hitchin, but born in Kentish Town, London.
He resided in Hitchin and attended Hitchin British Boys' School and enlisted in Hitchin.
He had joined the Herts Territorials before the war in January 1914.
Wartime Service
George would have had a four digit service number, but would have been renumbered to Service Number 265386 early in 1917. He was in No. 4 Company of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment and and must have volunteered for overseas service as went to France will many others of his regiment on 4 November 1914.
He had been home twice on leave and had been gassed on one occasion, wounded on another and was killed in action by a shell in Belgium.
At the time of his death the Hertfordshires were part of the 118th Brigade of the 39th Division in X Corps. The Herts were not engaged in any major action at the time, but had just received a severe mauling at St. Julien, as a result of which, they temporarily ceased to exist as a fighting unit, having lost half their number.
On the 26th September the 118th Brigade attacked with the three other Battalions in the Battle of Polygon Wood. They were positioned west of Gheluvelt and south of Clapham Junction (on the Ypres to Menin road).
A friend wrote to say that George had been killed by a shell.
He was buried in Plot 9A, Row D, Grave 2 in the Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
