Name
George Albert Ford
1886
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40957
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 48 to 50 and 162A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium.
UK & Other Memorials
South Mimms War Memorial, Christ Church WW 1 Memorial Plaque Southgate
Pre War
George Alfred FORD was born in Old Southgate, Middlesex, in 1886, son of Reuban George/George Reuben Ford, a Gardener and Hannah (Annie) Howell Ford (nee Grey). One of eight children.
His parents married on 12th July 1875, in Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire. Both parents were from the Bedfordshire area.
1891 Census records George aged 3, living with his parents, three Brothers and two sisters in Southgate Road, Cockfosters, Herts.
1901 Census, George aged 14, is living with his parents, four brothers, two sisters Rose (16) and Nellie (3) at, 2 Zalee Cottage, Chelmsford Road, Southgate, Middlesex.
1911 Census, George 24 is single, working as a Domestic Gardener, living with his parents, sisters Rose (27), Nellie (13), brothers Ernest (21) and Sydney (18) at 33 Chelmsford Road, Southgate, Middx.
George married Florence Amelia Fuller the daughter of Frederick William and Amelia Fuller on 5th February 1916, at Saint Andrews Church, Market Place, Enfield, Middx.
Wartime Service
George enlisted at Bedford, in the Bedfordshire Regiment, issued with the service number 40957, (we be leave he served with the Labour Corps at some time with the service numbers 127058 / 56186).
George was Killed in Action on 15th November 1917, he has no known grave, he is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing in Belgium. Panel 48 to 50.
Additional Information
His effects of £5-06s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £7-10s-00d, went to his widow Florence Ford.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
