Name
George Richard Porter
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
19809
Hampshire Regiment
10th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
George Porter was born in the autumn of 1889 at Kings Langley. He was one of eight children (two sons and six daughters) born to Richard and Louisa Porter. In the 1891 Census the family was recorded living at Whippendell, Kings Langley/Chipperfield. Richard worked as a Hay Binder. By the time of the 1901 Census the family had moved to Durrant’s Hill, Hemel Hempstead, and Richard then worked as a Hedger on a Farm.
By 1911 George had married and in the Census he and his wife, Jane, were recorded living at 80, Breakspeare Road, Abbots Langley.
It is not known when George enlisted. However, his Medal Roll indicated that he was sent to the Balkans on 3rd October 1915. It is also not known when or why George became associated with the Langleybury/Hunton Bridge area, however, in the Langleybury Parish Magazine of June 1916 he was noted serving with the 10th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment.
George’s Medal Roll noted that he was discharged on 2nd August 1916, but no reason was given for this. It was later, in February 1917, that the Langleybury Parish Magazine reported that George had been wounded, which must have resulted in his discharge, presumably out of the Army and back to England.
George survived the War and was recorded in the Langleybury Roll of Honour when it was compiled at the end of the War. Although he was a resident of Abbots Langley around the time of the 1911 Census and had been born in Kings Langley, George was not recorded in the records of those villages during or after the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
