Name
George Final
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/12/1914
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
9187
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TROU AID POST CEMETERY, FLEURBAIX
Row C, Grave 7.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Not on the Chorleywood memorials
Pre War
Son of the late Richard and Susan (nee ELEMENT) FINAL of Watford.
His parents married 21 September 1878 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, Herts. Susan, of Mill End, Herts, died 1885 aged 47, and was buried 26 August at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth. Richard remarried 26 June 1887 at St Mary’s, Rickmansworth, to Mary Eliza ELLEMENT. He died 1905 in Watford aged 71, and was buried 17 August in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
George was born 1882 in Chorley Wood, Herts.
On the 1891 Census, aged 9 he lived in Bushey, Herts, with his father, step-mother and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, a Private in the Grenadier Guards aged 20, he was stationed in Windsor, Berks. On the 1911 Census, he is proving elusive.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London 3 November 1900 a labourer; served in the South African Campaign, and was awarded the Q.S.A. medal 1902.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 12 November 1914, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, George’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Has a entry in the National Roll of the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
