Name
George Lancaster Cutts
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27517
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 28 and 29
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Cuthbert's Rye Park Church Memorial, Rye Park,
Not on the Stanstead Abbotts memorials
Pre War
Born in 1880, in High Street, Stanstead Abbotts, to parents George Lancaster and Mary Ann (nee Woodhouse), he had four brothers and three sisters. In 1891 they were living in the High Street in Stanstead Abbotts and his father was a malt maker but by 1901 they had moved to Adelaide Cottages in Hoddesdon. Here his father’s occupation was recorded as a gravel pit labourer as was George himself. Later they lived in 38 Rye Road, Hoddesdon.
Enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
George joined the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regt, who in March 1918 took part in the Battle of the Somme 1918, or the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael. On 21st March the enemy began their major offensive and the following day attacked the position of the Bedford’s, who were guarding La Montagne Bridge, a crossing over the Crozat Canal. Heavy machine gun and artillery fire caused C company to retreat but a counter attack by them and 2 companies from the Northants Regt. retook the bridge, during this action, past of the Battle of St Quentin George was killed.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins
