Name
George Thomas Ginn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/09/1915
37
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3936
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BENGEO (HOLY TRINITY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
Christchurch Plaque, now in Holy Trinity Church, Bengeo,
Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1878 in Hertford and christened on 13 Oct 1878 in Hertford son of John and Ellen (Drew) Ginn and living in Bircherley Green, Hertford in 1881 and in 9 Green Street, Hertford in 1891 and 1901.
He married Mary Dennis in 1903 in Hertford and they lived in 3a Balfour Street, Hertford with four children (with three sons and one daughter) in 1911. He was a brewing labourer.
Wartime Service
Posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment after joining the army, his unit’s war diary states that he died of illness in England.
Lack of any information on medals received may mean he never left the UK.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
Malcolm Lennox, Terry & Glenis Collins, Jonty Wild
