Name
George William Millard
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/11/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265419
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXI. EE. 5.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
PEACE PERFECT PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Norton, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
George William Millard was born 1898 in Deptford, Kent , to George William, farm labourer, and Lilia (nee Smith ).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents and Horace (born 1890) at Brook Street, Stotfold, Beds.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents (father George was a gas engine driver, Sydney (born 1897), Elsie (born 1896), George, and boarder William Seymour (bricklayer, born 1882) were living at 4, Upcott Street, Deptford St Paul, Kent.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, (father a foreman carter), Sydney (grocer assistant), George (baker’s errand boy) and Arthur (born 1902) were living at 3, Pixmore Way, Letchworth, Herts.
His mother later lived at 94 Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for George. His serial number indicates the probable enlistment as a Territorial Soldier in Jul 1913 as Private 2380 in the Hertfordshire Regiment.
He went to France with the 1/1st Battalion on 6 Nov 1914 having volunteered with many others Territorals for service abroad. The Battalion was part of 4 (Guards) Brigade, 2 Division at Ypres. In 1915 the battalion transferred to 6 Brigade and took part in the Battles of Festubert (15-25 May) & Loos (25 Sep-8 Oct). Agin they transferred to 188 Brigade, 39 Division and took part in the Battle of the Somme at Thiepval (26-28 Sep), Ancre Heights(1 Oct-11 Nov) and Ancre (13-18 Nov). In 1917 the were deployed near Ypres and took part in the Battles of 3rd Ypres(Passchendaele) at Pilkem (31 Jul-2 Aug), Langemarck (16-18 Aug), Menin Road (20-25 Sep), Polygon Wood (26 Sep-3 Oct) and 2nd Battle of Passchendaele (26 Oct-10 Nov). It was in this last action that George was wounded (shellfire to abdomen) and although evacuated to 2nd Canadian Hospital at le Treport, he died of his wounds on 5 Nov 1917.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £15 and arrears of £15 1s 2d was paid to his mother, who also received a pension of 6s per week.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Ellen Barnes, Jonty Wild
