Name
George Henry Bateman
24/08/1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26037
The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Chipperfield Village Memorial, St Paul's Church Memorial, Chipperfield, Not on the Sarratt Memorials
Pre War
George Henry Bateman was born on 24 August 1890, in Sarratt, Hertfordshire, son of Henry Bateman and Mary Bateman (nee Goodman). The eldest of four children Alice (1891-1893), Florence (B 1897) & Mable (B 1898). He was Baptised on 3 April 1892, in the Parish Church, Sarratt, with his sister Alice Mary.
1891 Census records George aged 1, living with his parents at, The Green, Sarratt, Herts. By 1901 George his parents, sisters Florence (7) and Mable (3) were now living in Dunny Lane, Chipperfield, Herts. Then in the 1911 Census, he was aged 21, working as a Carter on a Farm, (Carrier of goods by wagon) living with his parents and two sisters, still in Dunny Lane, Chipperfield. His cousin Reginald Goodman (9) was also living with the family.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Watford, Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 26186, later transferred to The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment with the service number 26037. He was Killed in Action, on 27 August 1916, aged 26, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
Additional Information
His mother Mary received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 22 May 1917, and his effects of £3-1s-11d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3. George was a member of the Chipperfield Baptist Chaple.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
