Name
George Edwards Loud
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/06/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
648314
London Regiment *1
20th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
XV. A. 35.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, Royal Masonic School Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born on 5 April 1881 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire son of Mark and Rebecca (Walker) Loud.
Educated at Hanley School, Denstone College and Jesus College, Oxford (BA 1905). He joined the teaching staff of the Royal Masonic School in 1905 and became Housemaster in 1914. He was ordained priest in 1907 and appointed Chaplain to the school in 1915. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in December 1916 at Watford formerly 534420, 15th London Regiment and entered France with the Expeditionary Force in July 1917. He was taken prisoner on 8 March 1918 and contracted pneumonia at the Münster Prisoner of War Camp, Westphalia and taken to the Bothof Camp Reserve Hospital where he died. George was buried at the Bothof Municipal Cemetery.
Charles Gamble, a colleague at the Royal Masonic School, wrote: "His acts bespeak his character : genial, generous, just, of rare mettle, he was held at his school in more than usual affection by colleagues and boys. In house and class-room, on the playing field and in his study, he spoke and lived the life he preached. He was a scholar of many parts, a fine athlete and a charming companion."
Additional Information
Also see ‘Additional Information’ provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Blackheath and Woolwich).
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk Malcolm Lennox, Old Masonians Association, Jonty Wild
