Name
George Hunt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/04/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
10604
Bedfordshire Regiment
A Company 6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
IV.D.23
France
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in 1888 in Rickmansworth, George was the son of George, a General Labourer, and Emma Jane (nee Borthwick) Hunt.
In 1891, with George junior and his brother William, they were living Bury Lane, Rickmansworth. George senior died in 1893 age 32 and in 1898 Emma married Frederick William Maunders. 1901 found them in Rose Cottage, Rickmansworth High Street with three children (all Hunt’s). In 1911 George was an Underground Colliery Labourer lodging with Matthew Powell and family a told Lamb Upper, Cwmtwrch, Ystradgynlais Lower, Breconshire.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
This unit was a Service Battalion raised in August 1914, landed Le Havre 30th of July 1915 and joined 112th Brigade 37th Division.
They served entirely on the Western Front, their 1916 actions including Bazentin Ridge (330 casualties), Pozieres Ridge, and Ancre. George was killed during the First Battle of the Scarpe at the start of the Second Battle of Arras 9th of April to the 16th of May 1917. On the 9th 6th Battalion marched to Arras from Warlus and dug in near to Feuchy Chapelle. On the 10th, as part of 110th Brigade, the Battalion helped capture La Folie Ferme and La Bergere in an attack on Monchy-le-Preux.
George probably lost his life in the fierce fighting there. The 11th was spent in the trenches followed by an overnight march to Tilloy, a daylight march to Arras, and then by bus to Wanquetin.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
