Name
(Lionel) Harold Game
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/12/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
201224
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
KANTARA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
F.231
Egypt
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Weston
Pre War
Born December 1897 and baptised in Weston on 5 February 1898. Son of William and Mary Ann Game of Church End, Weston. 1911 Census: living with family at Maiden Street, Weston, and a schoolboy.
Wartime Service
The 1st/5th Bedfords were in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force and were camped at Pinewoods, Beirut, Palestine. They spent time training and drilling, bayonet practice etc. and were under orders to respond to civil unrest. No action took place in December, but the war diaries mention an outbreak of influenza, from which he died.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £25 awarded to father William. Although registered as Lionel Harold, he seems to have been baptised just as Harold and is listed as such on the Censuses. He is listed as H Game on the Weston Memorial.
Acknowledgments
Peter Handy, Brenda Palmer
