Name
George Creek
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/01/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
241261
The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AMARA WAR CEMETERY
XXVI. B. 4.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Researched.
UK & Other Memorials
Barley Village Memorial, St Margaret's Church Memorial, Barley
Pre War
George CREEK was born in 1893, in Barley, Hertfordshire, son of George Creek a Farm Horsekeeper and Susan Creek (nee Chapman). Their only child.
1901 Census records George Jr. aged 8, living with his parents in Church End, Barley, Herts. His cousin Arthur Mole (4) was living with the family.
1911 Census, George Jr. aged 18, he is working as a Shephard, living with his parents, still in Church End, Barley, His grandfather Widower John Chapman (72), is living with the family.
Before the war he was employed by Ellis Wilkerson on agricultural work.
Wartime Service
George Jr. enlisted at Royston, Herts, on the 3rd September 1914, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service No. 14371. On completion of his training, he was sent to France, arriving on 27th April 1915.
In May 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres, (Second Battle of Ypres 22nd April to 25th May 1915) he was wounded, and brought back to England and spent eight months recovering in hospital in Nottingham.
On his recovery in January 1916, he was transferred to the 5th (The Weald of Kent) Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs), initially with the service No. 3313, later 241261, and posted to Mesopotamia in February 1916.
On the 17th January 1917 George was wounded for a second time at Khadira Bend on the Tigris River during the Battle of Kut. This time he succumbed to his wounds and died on the 27th January 1917, he is commemorated at The Amara War Cemetery in Iraq. Ref; XXVI. B. 4.
Additional Information
His mother Ann Creek received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6th November 1918, her address was given as Smith End, Barley, Herts.
His effects of £20-10s-09d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £10-10s-00d, went to his father George.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
