Name
George Edwin Sayers
18 Oct 1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
09/03/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
19539
Royal Army Medical Corps
12th Field Ambulance
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
OUTREBOIS CHURCHYARD
Near the South-West corner of the Church.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial
Pre War
George Edwin Sayers was born on 18 Oct 1885 (baptised 31 Jul 1887at Holy Trinity, Surrey) in Lambeth, Surrey to William Walter Sayers, hospital porter, and Alice (nee Evans). The family were living at Crozier Street, Lambeth.
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Alice (born 1879), William H (born 1882) and George E were living at Royal Street, Lambeth.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William H (labourer), George E (signwriter) and Walter were living at Russell Grove, Brixton.
George enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps as private trade signwriter.
On the 1911 Census George is listed at Cottonera, Malta with the Royal Army Medical Corps. George’s father was living as a boarder at 20 Thurston Road, Lewisham with the Lloyd family, he had been pensioned from being a hospital porter at St Thomas’s Hospital, London.
George married Ella Elizabeth Mason in 1917. they lived at Copplestone, Baldock Road, Letchworth.
Wartime Service
No Service Record was found for George who was probably serving with Medical Corps on the outbreak of the Great War.
He was posted to 12 Field Ambulance in 4 Division and went to with them to France on 5 Nov 1914 to join the Field Ambulance. In 1915 the Division were at 2nd Ypres (Apr-May), in 1916 the Battles of the Somme, in 1917 at the Battles of Arras in the spring. George died of poisoning on 9 Mar 1917.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £18 and arrears of £25 4s 9d was paid to his widow.
His connection to Letchworth is his sister Alice who married Charles Foster, managing director, Foster Instruments, they lived on Baldock Road, Letchworth Foster. Only two burials in cemetery, near Doullens, both Royal Army Medical Corps, both same day. Photo and postcard on ancestry..
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild
