Name
George Alfred Currell
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/11/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
260175
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
11th Battalion
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Territorial Force War, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Addenda Panel
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield War Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book
Pre War
George Alfred Currell was born in 1896 in Hatfield, son of George Currell a Gardener (B 1860 in Hatfield) and Mary Jane Currell (nee Fisher) (B 1867 in Hatfield). One of twelve children two of which died in infancy. Baptised in the Parish of Bishops Hatfield on 10th May 1896.
1901 Census records George aged 5, at school, living with his father, brothers William 10, John 7, sisters Alice 11 and Annie 1, at 14 St Peters Cottages, Newtown, Hatfield. His father was a domestic gardener.
By 1911, now aged 15 George had left school and was working as a General Labourer, living with his parents, brothers John 17, Leonard 7, Charles 9, sisters Annie 11, Amy 6, Rose 4 and Alice 3, in Green Lanes, Hatfield. His father was now working as a roadman for the County Council.
Wartime Service
On the outbreak of war it is believed George was a member of the Hertfordshire Regiment Territorial Force with the Service No. 2331. Later transferred to the Notts and Derbyshire Regiment with the Service No. 260175.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of September 1914, recorded, in the list of men mobilised from Hatfield: “Currell, George – Green Lanes – Territorials.”
The Herts Advertiser, dated 14th July 1917, recorded: “Pte George Currell, of the Herts. Regt., who before the war was engaged as a woodman on the Hatfield House Estate, he was in the Territorials at the time of mobilisation. He has been in France for 17 months without leave."
Awarded the Victory Medal, British War Medal.
Additional Information
CWGC Addenda Panel at Vis-EN-Artois. "Georges name has only recently been accepted for Commemoration on this Memorial. However, we do not know when it will be added. Please contact the Commission before planning a visit, for more information."
The value of his effects were £24-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his father George.
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Currell (Mother) of Green Lanes, Hatfield received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
His Brother Private 9783 John Currell was awarded the Military Medal. He was killed in action on 25th September 1916.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Stuart Osborne, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
