Name
George Inwood
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/09/1915
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
26875
Royal Garrison Artillery
13th Trench Mortar Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RUE-DU-BACQUEROT NO.1 MILITARY CEMETERY, LAVENTIE
II. C. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt memorials
Pre War
George Inwood was born in 1889, in Newington/Sittingbourne, Kent,
(depending on the document), son of Richard Henry Inwood a Brickfield
Labourer and Caroline Inwood (nee Knight). One of four children although one
died in infancy.
He was Baptised on the 13th October 1889, at St.
Mary the Virgin, Newington, Kent.
1891 Census records George aged 1 living with his parents, sisters
Caroline (5) and Harriet (4) in High Street, Newington, Kent.
In the early part of 1892, his mother Caroline died aged 29.
1901 Census, George (11), his widowed father, sisters
Caroline (15) and Harriet (13) are living with his Grandmother Harriet Knight
(77) at, 1 Devonshire Cottage, Newington, Kent.
On the 21st January 1907 George enlisted in "The
Kent Royal Garrison Artillery (Militia)" as Gunner 8068 George Inwood, until the
16th June 1907, when he left the Militia and joined the Royal Garrison
Artillery (RGA) as a regular soldier with the service number 26875, on the 17th June 1907.
1911 Census, George is recorded, aged 21, single, a Gunner
with 102 Company, RGA, stationed at Fort Ricasoli, Kalkara, Malta.
George married Winifred Violet Louisa Frier, the daughter of
Joseph and Julia Frier of Portsea, Hampshire, in 1915, the marriage was
registered in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war George was a serving soldier with the
Royal Garrison Artillery.
He arrived in France on the 6th June 1915. He
died three months later on 28th September 1915, of wounds received
in action. At the time he was serving with the 13th Trench Mortar
Company, RGA.
Additional Information
Winifred received a widow’s pension of 10/6 a week from 24th
April 1916 and his effects of £10-17-8, pay owing and his war gratuity of £7.
In 1920 Winfred married Ernest Edward Collis at Lewisham,
Lon/Middx. They lived at 43 Windmill Lane, Cheshunt, Herts. This is the only
known connection George had with Cheshunt.
Georges service record for his time with “The Kent Royal
Garrison Artillery (Militia)” is available at The Nation Archive, Kew, and the Find
My Past web site.
Ernest Edward Collis served with the Royal Garrison Artillery
from 1907 to 1919, serving in Egypt during WW 1.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
