Name
George Dellow
1878
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/04/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
S/32456
Rifle Brigade
20th Garrison Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SYRA NEW BRITISH CEMETERY
II. A. 1.
Greece
Headstone Inscription
R.I.P.
UK & Other Memorials
Barkway Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway
Pre War
George Isaac William Dellow was born in London, Middlesex in 1878, the son of George and Frances (Fanny) Dellow and one of five children. He was baptised in Reed, Hertfordshire on 6 July 1879.
On the 1881 Census the family were living at Barkway Road, Reed where both George and his father were working as agricultural labourers on a farm. By the 1901 Census they were living at High Street, Barkway, where both George and his father were working as agricultural labourers. Although his parents and siblings remained in Barkway in 1911, then living at Well Yard, Barkway, Royston, Herts, George was not listed with them.
Wartime Service
He originally enlisted in the Territorial Force of Hertfordshire Regiment under reg. no. 5616 in October 1915. When he was medically examined, his physical development was considered unsatisfactory and stated that he had defective vision and was therefore unfit to serve.
Sometime later he was accepted into the army and he served with the 20th Garrison Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, under reg. no. G/28890.
George was travelling from Salonika, Greece to Alexandria in Egypt on board the troop ship Arcadian on 15 April 1917 when it was torpedoed by German submarine UC74 and sunk off the Greek island of Sifnos and he was drowned. He was one of the 279 lives lost but his body was recovered and buried on the island of Syra in the New British Cemetery, Greece.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £3 10s and pay owing of £6 4s 10d. Pension cards exist with his mother as dependant but one of the cards shows an award was refused.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
