Name
George Alfred Rowe
27/06/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
TF/5355
Middlesex Regiment
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 12 D and 13 B.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary The Virgin memorial Cheshunt
Pre War
George Alfred Rowe was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 27th June 1894, son of Thomas Rowe a, Brickmaker and Emma Louise Rowe (nee Eaglestone). One of twelve children although two died in infancy.
George attended St Mary’s Infants School, Cheshunt, from July 1897 to May 1901, from there to Dewhurst Endowed Boys School, Cheshunt, leaving in May 1907, to start work.
1901 Census records George aged 7, living with his parents, five brothers and sister Ann (14) at, 25 Prospect Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census, George aged 16, is working as a Garden Nursery Hand, living with his parents, sister Ann, and three brothers, still at, 25 Prospect Road.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Enfield, Middx, posted to the Duke of Cambridges Own (Middlesex Regiment), issued with service number TF/5355.
Seeing action on the Western Front, he was Killed in Action on 5th September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme (1st July – 18th November 1916). He has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing. It is believed George was attached to the 21st Battalion, Manchester Regiment, at the time of his death.
Additional Information
His effects of £2-2s-2d, pay owing and his war gratuity of
£3, went to his father Thomas Rowe.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
