Name
George William Sargent
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
106536
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
VI. C. 34.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
ONE PRECIOUS TO OUR HEARTS HAS GONE THE SOUL IS SAFE IN HEAVEN
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
George William Sargent was born on January 1893 in Bishop's Stortford to Warren and Elizabeth Sargent and baptised at St Michael’s, Bishop's Stortford on 23 February 1893.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at Nursey Road, Bishop's Stortford, when his father was listed as a Sergeant of the 1st Btn, Bedfordshire Regiment. They moved to Canada in 1906 and were living at Humboldt, Canada on the 1911 Census.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 30 December 1914 and served with Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1st Btn. He was killed in action during heavy shelling of the trenches south east of Zillebeke, Belgium.
Additional Information
His brother Percy James died on 2 June 1916 and is buried at Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery, Belgium.
His father, Mr Warren Sargent of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, ordered his headstone inscription, "ONE PRECIOUS TO OUR HEARTS HAS GONE THE SOUL IS SAFE IN HEAVEN".
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
