Will O'Brien Posted 4 June , 2006 Share Posted 4 June , 2006 As per CWGC Name: GEORGE, JOHN RICHARD Initials: J R Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Royal Berkshire Regiment Unit Text: 8th Bn. Age: 25 Date of Death: 04/06/1918 Service No: 21865 Additional information: Son of George and Harriet George, of Clifton; husband of Edith Mary George, of Point Villa, Lower Bridge Valley Rd., Clifton, Bristol. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. B. 2. Cemetery: RIBEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (SOMME) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 4 June , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 June , 2006 & the cemetery info Cemetery: RIBEMONT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION (SOMME) Country: France Locality: Somme Visiting Information: Wheelchair access to this site is possible, but may be by alternative entrance. For further information regarding wheelchair access, please contact our Enquiries Section on 01628 507200. Location Information: Ribemont is in the Department of the Somme, about 8 kilometres south-west of Albert. The Communal Cemetery is a little north of the village, on the west side of the road to Baizieux; and the Extension is on the south-west side of the Communal Cemetery. Historical Information: This sector of the front was taken over by the Commonwealth forces in the early summer of 1915, when Mericourt-Ribemont Station, on the railway line from Amiens to Albert, became a railhead. However, it was not until the German advance at the end of March 1918 that the first burials were made at Ribemont, initially in the communal cemetery itself. The extension was begun in May and used until August 1918, when 68 burials were carried out by units engaged in the defence of Amiens. It was greatly enlarged after the Armistice when graves were brought in from other cemeteries and from the battlefields of 1918 east of Ribemont. In 1929, the burials in the communal cemetery were also moved into the extension. The extension now contains 498 burials and commemorations of the First World War. 36 of the burials are unidentified and there are special memorials to two soldiers whose graves in the communal cemetery could not be found, and to 16 buried in other concentrated cemeteries whose graves were destroyed in later battles. The extension was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. No. of Identified Casualties: 462 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 4 June , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 June , 2006 John's online MIC index entry can be seen here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen D Posted 4 June , 2006 Share Posted 4 June , 2006 8th Royal Berkshire Tuesday 4th June 1918 France, SUPPORT TRENCHES 11PM. 2nd BEDFORD Regt 54th Brigade relieved Batt. On relief Batt moved into Divisional Reserve in http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/wardiary.php...nth=6&year=1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will O'Brien Posted 4 June , 2006 Author Share Posted 4 June , 2006 Found John on the 1901 Census as a 7 year old, living in Bristol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisharley9 Posted 5 June , 2006 Share Posted 5 June , 2006 From SDGW Born & Enlisted Bristol KIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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