Name
George Harker Mallison
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
23612
Leicestershire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY
316.
Lebanon
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Sawbridgeworth memorials
Pre War
Born in October 1891 in Toxteth Park, Lancashire, George was a professional soldier enlisting before 1911.
He is recorded as the son of B. and Emily Mallison, of 6, Westway, Sawbridgeworth, Herts. (CWGC records).
Wartime Service
At the start of the Great War, George was serving at Ranikhet in India with the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. They were sent forthwith to France, arriving at Marseilles 12 October 1914 and took part in 1915 in the battle of Neuve Chapelle.
On 23 November 1915, the Battalion arrived in Mesopotamia (Iraq) via Egypt to fight Ottoman Turkey, being transferred again to Palestine (Israel) on 21 January 1918. After taking part in the Battle of Megiddo 19-25 September 1918, the Battalion ended the war in Syria.
He died on 13 November 1918, after the Armistice of Mudros and the end of the war. The cause of George’s death is unknown, but it is likely to be illness.
George Mallison is buried at Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon. He was aged 27.
We have yet to find a definitive connection to Sawbridgeworth
Additional Information
His headstone reads “One of the best that God could lend”, as requested by his mother. With address recorded as c/o Mrs Roberts, Plas Dulyn, Tal-y-Cafn, N. Wales. Note. Some sources spell the surname as ‘Malleson’.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
