Name
George Wake
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
16236
Suffolk Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
STE. CATHERINE BRITISH CEMETERY
A.14
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town Memorial, Not on the Barkway memorials
Pre War
Son of Elizabeth Wake, of 91, Queen's Rd., Royston, Herts, and the late George Wake.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in Barkway, Herts. and he enlisted in Cambridge.
Wartime Service
A shell struck his Section wounding several men. George assisted the Stretcher Bearers with the wounded when a second shell landed in the same location, killing him.
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
