Name
George Latchford
21 December 1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25281
Northamptonshire Regiment
B Coy. 6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOUZINCOURT RIDGE CEMETERY, ALBERT
II. H. 2.
France
Headstone Inscription
GOD IS LOVE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Boxmoor memorials, Barnack War Memorial, Northamptonshire
Pre War
George Latchford was born in Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead, Herts on 21 December 1884, the son of Edward and Hannah Latchford, and one of nine children.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 14 Cowper Road, Boxmoor, where his father was working as a Timber Merchant on his own account and George was an Under Gardener Domestic.
He enlisted into the Suffolk Regiment under Reg. No. 6137 in 1902.
He married Mary Ann Elizabeth Webster (known as Elizabeth or Lizzie) on 27 September 1910 in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and on the 1911 Census they were living at Brotherhood Farm, Newdigate, Surrey, where he was working as a Market Gardener. They had two children, Katherine born 8 December 1914 and Frank, born 23 November 1915.
The family were living at Barnack, Stamford at the time of his enlistment.
Wartime Service
George enlisted in Barnack, Lincolnshire (now Northamptonshire) and served with the 6th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 2 July 1918, aged 34. Although originally posted as missing, his body was located when the war ended and he is now buried at Bouzincourt Ridge Cemetery, Albert, France.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £11 10s and pay owing of £16 16s 3d. She also received a pension of £1 5s 5d a week for herself and her two children. Uncle to Arthur Edmund Latchford who served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and died in 1915.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.roll-of-honour.com
