Name
George Harradine
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/04/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
29765
Bedfordshire Regiment
7th Bn.
'C' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
I. E. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
No inscription.
UK & Other Memorials
Odsey War Memorial,
Not on the Ashwell memorials
Pre War
Born and resident of Ashwell. Enlisted Bedford. He lived at Mill Cottages, Odsey, with his wife and four children.
George was born in Steeple Morden. Cambridgeshire which is close to Ashwell and Odsey.
At the time of enlisting he lived at Mill Cottages, Odsey with his wife Rosetta (nee Flack) (widow of Frank Jarvis) with his two step-children and 3 children.
Rosetta Flack was born in Chrishall, Essex and she married George in 1907.
Before he enlisted George was a farm labourer in the employ of Sir George Fordham. He lived at Mill Cottages, Odsey, with his wife and four children.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War (SDITGW) database records that he was born an living in Ashwell when he enlisted in Bedford.
Wartime Service
George joined up in June 1916 and was posted to France in September of that year.
He served as part of the 54 Brigade, 18 Division.
He died of his wounds after receiving a serious gunshot to his shoulder, believed to be in the area of Cachy.
At the time of his death it was recorded that he left a wife and four children
Additional Information
Son of Eliza and the late William Harradine, of Ashwell station, nr. Baldock, Herts. Ashwell station is very close to the hamlet of Odsey.
His wife's son by a previous marriage, Frank Jarvis, was awarded a certificate for gallant conduct at the Battle of Messines in June 1917.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Patty Briggs
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, Lynette Wray, Jonty Wild
