George Wake

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 War Memorial, Not on the Barkway memorials

Pre War

Son of Elizabeth Wake, of 91, Queen's Rd., Royston, Herts, and the late George Wake.

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