Name
George Badrick
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36256
Royal Berkshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Long Marston Village Memorial,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford,
Not on Tring Memorials
Pre War
George Badrick was born in 1899 in Berkhamsted to George Badrick, farm horseman, and Louisa Emily Winfield (nee Baker). Louisa had been married in 1884 to John Winfield, a brushmaker, there had been two sons: William (born 1885) and Walter (born 1887), Their father had died in 1886. On the 1891 Census Louisa, a silk mill hand, and her sons were living at 1 Harrow Yard, Tring Road, Berkhamsted.
Louisa married George Badrick (Senior) in 1892.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William John Winfield, Walter Winfield, Charlie (born 1893), Thomas,(born 1895), George and Percy were living at Long Marston,
On the 1911 Census, the family of parents, William John Winfield, Charles, Thomas (all three were farm cowmen), George (farm ploughboy),Percy and Christopher J (born 1905) were living at Tring Road, Long Marston. Also listed was Uriah Badrick as Grandfather.
Wartime Service
No Service Records was found for George. He enlisted in the Hertfordshire Regiment as Private 6020 around Jan 1916 and was at some time transferred to Princess Charlotte, Princess of Wales’s (Royal Berkshire Regiment) as Private 36251 and posted to the 6th (Service) Battalion as part of 53 Brigade 18th (Eastern) Division.
He probably fought in the Battles of the Somme - Albert (1 Jul-13 Jul), Bazentin (14-17 Jul),, Delville Wood (15 Jul-3 Sep) and Thiepval Ridge (26-28 Sep). In this last action that George was reported was killed n action on 29 Sep 1916. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £4 9s 10d was paid to his mother. Brother Percy served in 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade as Private 45751 and died of wounds 30 May 1918.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
