Name
George Tyler Waller *1
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
8641
Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BAGHDAD (NORTH GATE) WAR CEMETERY
XIV. J. 11
Iraq
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Datchworth memorials
Pre War
Born Datchworth 1890, son of Henry & Sarah Waller George was born in Datchworth in 1890 son of Henry and Sarah Waller but at some time they moved away. In 1901 he was living in Edmonton, and his father was a brick worker. Possibly his mother was a Tyler and related to other Tylers in Datchworth (QV,) and perhaps this accounts for his middle name. Sometime after this he joined the army, possibly 1906/7 from his service number) and in 1911 he is found as in India with the Ox and Bucks.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Stratford Essex, served in Mesopotamia where he arrived in 5th December 1914. He was a regular soldier, and died of disease rather than in action, which was very common in Mesopotamia.
Additional Information
Incorrectly shown as 'Walker’ in some records. *1
Acknowledgments
June Colegrove, Adrian Pitts, Pat Bird
