Name
George Edward Garley
1880
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/18822
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DURY CRUCIFIX CEMETERY
VI. A. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
IN FOND MEMORY UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
UK & Other Memorials
Hinxworth Village Memorial
Pre War
George Edward Garley was born in Hinxworth in 1880, the son of George and Betsy Garley. On the 1881 Census, the family were living at High Street, Hinxworth, with his grandfather Thomas Gurley. They remained there in 1891 but by 1901 George was a boarder with Frederick and Alice Johnson at 3 Lower Cross, Hampstead and working as a horsekeeper.
He married Edith Ella Barker in 1904 and on the 1911 Census they were living at 43 Steerforth Street, Earlsfield, Wandsworth, London, where George was working as a tram conductor. Living with them was niece Margaret Ridges aged 3. They do not appear to have had any children.
Wartime Service
George enlisted in Hitchin, Herts and served with the 6th Battalion of the Buffs (East Kent) Regiment.
He was initially declared missing, believed killed in action, on 3 May 1917, aged 36, probably during the Battle of the Scarpe, part of the Arras Offensive. His body was later found and reinterred in Dury Crucifix Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £1 14s 7d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week. She also ordered hs headstone inscription, while living at Hinxworth, Nr Baldock, Herts., "IN FOND MEMORY UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Dunne, www.iwm.org.uk
