Name
The Rev. George Southey Pardoe
1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1918
41
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Chaplain 4th Class
Army Chaplains’ Department
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
R. 108
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
THE STRIFE IS O'ER THE BATTLE DONE, ALLELUIA
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Baldock memorials, University College War Memorial, Oxford, Garrison Church of All Saints Memorial, Aldershot, Hampshire
Pre War
George Southey Pardoe was born in 1877 in Hyssington, Church Stoke, Montgomeryshire, Wales, the son of George and Letitia Pardoe (nee Southey) and was baptised on 7 July 1877 at Hyssington. He was one of three children.
On the 1881 Census George was living with his father at Llanerch, where his father was the rector of Snead & Hyssinton. His mother was not listed with them but his aunt Annie Pardoe was living with them and presumbly looking after George, along with three domestic servants.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Hinton Vicarage, Christchurch, Hampshire where his father was the Church of England vicar. In addition to his parents, brother Francis and sister Fanny, there was his cousin Edith Southey, two boarders and three servants.
He was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, South Africa, which he left in May 1891. This was followed by University College, Oxford. He was curate of All Saints Church, South Acton, Middlesex from 1903 to 1907 and ordained as a priest in 1904, following which he became vicar of St Michael's, Muncaster, Cumbria from 1907.
He married Gertrude Edwards on 15 June 1905 at St Mary's Church, Finchley, Middlesex and on the 1911 Census they were living at Muncaster Chase, Ravenglass, Cumberland where he was a 'Clerk to Holy Orders'. They had no children, but there were two family visitors and two servants.
His widow lived at Southcote, Baldock, Herts following his death.
Wartime Service
He was commissioned as a temporary chaplain at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, Hampshire in April 1917 and then posted to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force attached to the 74th Casualty Clearing Station, arriving in Egypt on 18 November 1917.
He died of a cerebral haemorrhage on 15 October 1918 aged 41, whilst in the 34th Combined Clearing Hospital, Jerusalem. He is buried in Jerusalem War Cemetery, Israel.
Additional Information
His brother Francis Sneade Pardoe, Captain in H M Army and Cyril Joyce, estate agent, obtained probate of his estate in London on 10 February 1919 with effects of £7238 5s 1d. They also received payments from the army totalling £45 17s 9d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson, www.southafricanwargraves.org.
