Name
George Frederick King
1877
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
30278
18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HEMEL HEMPSTEAD (HEATH LANE) CEMETERY
Y. 19.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel; Hempstead Memorial, We are not aware of any Two Waters memorial
Pre War
George Frederick King was born in Two Waters, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead in 1877, the son of Amos and Hannah King.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Featherbed Lane, Hemel Hempstead, where his father was working as an Agricultural Labourer. By 1891 they had moved to Two Waters and 14 year old George was working as a Machinist.
He served in the army and fought in India and the Boer War with the 18th Hussars under reg. no. 4700 and received the King's South Africa Medal with clasps.
He married Amelia Jane Kelly on 1 October 1910 at St Paul's Church, Hemel Hempstead and on the 1911 Census they were living at Norton Fisheries, Baldock, where they were working for a 'Pisci Culturist', Lothian Sawry Cookson, as Man Servant and Cook.
His widow Mrs A J King, later lived at 44 Harley House, Regents Park, NW1 and 21 Mount View, Rickmansworth, Herts.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hampstead as a reservist at the start of the war and served as a Private in the 5th Reserve Cavalry.
He died of chronic nephritis and a cerebral haemorrhage on 15 December 1917 at the Military Hospital, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire. aged 42 and is buried in Hemel Hempstead (Heath Lane) Cemetery.
Additional Information
His widow did not receive a war gratuity but only his pay owing of 8s 9d. She also received a pension of 15s 9d a week. N.B., CWGC gives date of death as 14th December, but other records give the date as 15th. His widow Amelia Jane King died in 1963 and is buried in the same plot as her husband.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.dacorumheritage.org.uk, www.findagrave.com
