Name
George Fowtrell Abel (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/06/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
General List
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA WAR CEMETERY
III. S. 8.
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
St Cuthberts Church, Rye Park
Pre War
Born in 1879 in Sheerness, Kent and baptised on 31 Dec 1879 in St Paul’s, Sheerness son of William and Matilda (Fowtrell) Abel of 4 Rose Vale, Hoddesdon and later living at Rye House Hotel.
Wartime Service
Formerly GS/1449 Private Royal Fusiliers he entered France on 1 Jun 1915. He then obtained a commission to the General List on 28 Mar 1917 and died in Iraq.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
