Name
George Alfred Hummerstone
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8717
East Yorkshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Not yet known
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Clemence Church Memorial, Turnford
Pre War
George was a serving soldier when the war was declared having enlisted on 28th October 1907.
Wartime Service
His service record exists and he was discharged from the army on the 21st February 1916 as "physically unfit for further war service" due to tuberculosis of the lungs. He received the Silver War Badge number 96403. His service records suggest that his illness was not the result of ware service but aggravated by it.
Additional Information
Not listed in the CWGC records.
He is probably buried in the the parish of Ponders End.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
