Name
George Tarbox
1882
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/04/1915
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
4/5076
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
I. E. 21.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Berkhamsted Town Memorial, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
George Tarbox was born in 1882 in Berkhamsted, Herts, the son of Joseph and Isabella Tarbox (nee Oliffe). He was baptised on 23 April 1882 in Great Berkhamsted.
His father died in 1885 and his mother remarried in 1890 to William Richardson, a wheelwright, but sadly he died in 1898, leaving effects of £126. On the 1901 Census George was living with his widowed mother at 87 George Street, Northchurch, where she was working as a laundress.
He married Emily Wilson in 1903 and they had four children, Joseph, Daisy, William and Beatrice. (Daisy died in 1907 aged 5). By the 1911 Census they were living at 24 New Street, Sunnyside, Berkhamsted. where he was working as a general labourer.
Wartime Service
It is likely he was a reservist at the outbreak of war and re-joined the Bedfordshire Regiment, enlisting in Hatfield, Herts and serving as a Sergeant with the 1st Battalion in France from 11 November 1914.
He died of wounds on 21 April 1915, possibly during or after the Battle of Hill 60, and is now buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Belgium. He was originally buried elsewhere but was exhumed at the end of the war and reinterred.
Additional Information
His widow received a pension of £1 4s a week.
His son Joseph received his pay owing of £5 5s 3d to be awarded when he reached the age of 18 years on 5.9.21.
N.B. CWGC records George's parents as George and Emily Tarbox. This is incorrect. His wife/widow was Emily.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
