Name
George William Alfred Farrow
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/09/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
265386
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY
IXA. D. 2.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, 4 Co' Hertfordshire Reg' Territorials’ Memorial, Hitchin, Tilehouse St., Baptist Church War Memorial, Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Hitchin British Boys' School Memorial, Hitchin, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
He was the son of Mr and Mrs A.G. Farrow of Ducklands Farm, Hitchin, but born in Kentish Town, London.
He resided in Hitchin and attended Hitchin British Boys' School and enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
George was given Service Number 265386. He was in No. 4 Company of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment having joined in January 1914 and went to France with them in November 1914.
He had been gassed on one occasion, wounded on another and was killed in action by a shell in Belgium.
At the time of his death the Hertfordshires were part of the 118th Brigade of the 39th Division in X Corps. The Herts were not engaged in any major action at the time, but had just received a severe mauling at St. Julien, as a result of which, they temporarily ceased to exist as a fighting unit, having lost half their number.
On the 26th September the 118th Brigade attacked with the three other Battalions in the Battle of Polygon Wood. They were positioned west of Gheluvelt and south of Clapham Junction (on the Ypres to Menin road).
He was buried in Plot 9A, Row D, Grave 2 in the Hooge Crater Cemetery in Belgium.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
