Name
George Woodward
1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24381
Grenadier Guards
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 9.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Aldbury memorials
Pre War
George WOODWARD was born in St Pancras, London/Middlesex, in 1884.
He married Lily Messider the daughter of Peter and Mary Ann Messider of Aldbury, Herts, in 1912, the marriage was registered in Berkhamsted, Herts. They went on to have two sons George Woodward born in November 1913 and James Henry Woodward born January 1917.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Hammersmith, Middx, posted to the Grenadier Guards with the service No. 24381. On completion of his training, he was sent to the Western Front.
In July 1917, George would have been engaged at the start of the Battle of Passchendaele (31st July to 10th November 1917), on 12th October 1917, George was killed in action during an operation by the Guards to cross the Broembeek River, just short of the Houlthurst Forest. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium. Panel 9.
Additional Information
Lily received a widows Pension of 25s/5d (£1-05s-05d) a week from 6th May 1918, and his effects of £3-09s-10d pay owing and his war gratuity of £9.
The 1921 Census records Lily and her two son’s living in Aldbury, Herts, her nephew James Messider is living with the family, his father, lily’s brother, Gunner 154324 James Messider of the Royal Garrison Artillery was killed in action on 29th September 1918, in France. James Messider is recorded on the Aldbury Memorials, but George Woodward is not.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
