Name
George Mumford
4/09/1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1914
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Officer's Cook 2nd Class
L/4183
Royal Navy
H.M.S. "Hawke."
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
7
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial, Chatham, Kent, to the missing at sea.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt
Pre War
George Thomas Mumford was born in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, on 4th September 1890, son of George Felix Mumford a, Gardener and Rose Emma (Bradford) Mumford. The eldest of six children.
1891 Census, George Jr. aged 6 months, and his mother Rose are recorded as Visitors at 94 West Hill, Lewisham, Rose was visiting her younger sister Drescilla who was a Parlor Maid at that address.
1901 Census records George Jr. aged 10, living with his parents, two sisters and two brothers at 28 Albury Grove Road, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census George Jr. (20) was working as a Grocers Assistant in Great Yarmouth and boarding with widow Sara Ann Cole and her son Isaac at 2 Wellington Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His Parents and four siblings were still living at 28 Albury Grove Road, Cheshunt.
In January 1913 George Jr. enlisted in the Royal Navy, aged 22, he gave his occupation as a Shop Assistant, sent to HMS Pembrooke I, a shore base at Chatham, Kent, issued with the service number L/4183 (CH). On completion of his training, he was posted to HMS “Hawke” an Armoured Cruiser, on 19th January 1914.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war George Jr. was serving in the Royal Navy aboard HMS “Hawke”.
He was Killed in Action on 15th October 1914, aboard HMS “Hawke”
HMS “Hawke” was on patrol in the North Sea, 60 miles of Aberdeen on the morning of 15th October 1914, with her sister ship HMS “Theseus” when she was torpedoed by the German U-Boat U-9, under the command of Kapitanleutnant Otto Waddigen. HMS Hawke” sank very quickly with the loss of 524 Crew including the Captain and 86 boy sailors (George Jr. being one of them) only 49 men survived. At the time HMS “Hawke was a training ship.
He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial to the missing at sea.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
