Name
George Victor Lovelock
02/11/1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/08/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
L/12967
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WULVERGHEM-LINDENHOEK ROAD MILITARY CEMETERY
I. E. 13.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Inscription on his Headstone
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Oxhey War Memorial
Pre War
George Victor Lovelock was born on 2nd November 1892, in Islington, London / Middlesex, son of Richard William Lovelock (1849 - 1911) a Horse Keeper and Mary Coates Lovelock (1848 - 1937) (nee Wells) from Bushey in Hertfordshire. He was the youngest of 15 children, 6 died in infancy.
George was Baptised on 5th December 1892, with his twin sister Kate Marie, at St Pancras Old Church, Pancras Road, London /Middlesex. At the time the family lived at 45, Delhi Street.
1901 Census records George aged 8, living with his parents, and seven siblings, his married sister Ada Hicks and her two children were also living there at 14, Bidborough Street, St Pancras.
In 1911 his father Richard William Lovelock died in London aged 63. After the death of her husband, Mary and the family moved to live at 41, Chalk Hill, Oxhey, Herts.
1911 Census records George aged 19, a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) regiment, stationed at Guadeloupe Barracks, Bordon Army Camp in Hampshire.
Wartime Service
At the out break of War George was still in the army with the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regiment. Landing in France on 7th November 1914, which would subject he was with the 2nd Battalion at the time, as they landed at Le Havre, France on that date, as part of 23rd Brigade, 8th Division.
George died on 19th August 1915, of wounds received in action, he was 22 years old. He is buried in the CWGC Wulverghem-Lindenhoek Road Military Cemetery in Belgium.
Georges service number L/12967 would suggest he enlisted in 1910.
Additional Information
His effects of £4-16s-11d, Pay Owing and £5-10s-0d, War Gratuity went to his mother Mary. His mother received a Dependents Pension of 2/6 a week. Her address was 41, Chalk Hill, Oxhey, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild
