Name
George Henry Salt
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2965
Manchester Regiment
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LANCASHIRE LANDING CEMETERY
Row H, Grave 23.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
UK & Other Memorials
Christ Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Annie (nee SMITH) SALT of Manchester and the late Archibald Henry SALT; husband of Alice NORMAN (formerly SALT, nee ANDOW) of Watford.
His parents married 4 August 1889 at St Andrew’s, Shilton, Staffs. Archibald died 1895 in the Stoke on Trent, Staffs, district aged 32; Annie possibly died 1938 in the Manchester North district aged 71.
George was born 16 December 1891 in Etruria, Staffs, and baptised 13 January 1892 at St Matthew’s, Etruria. He married 1915 in the Bucklow, Chesh, district, and resided in Northenden, Chesh. Alice remarried 4 September 1920 at Christ Church, Watford, to Samuel Thomas NORMAN.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Rusholme, Manchester, with his widowed mother and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a hairdresser aged 19, he lived in Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester, with his [widowed] mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Manchester; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 24 July 1915, and died at Gallipoli of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, George’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
