Name
George Stephen Game
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
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Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Civilian
NA
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1911 in Hertford son of James and Emily Elizabeth (Allum) Game and was living in 37 Bull Plain, Hertford.
Wartime Service
Killed by a Zeppelin raid. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15. He was killed in his bedroom by flying glass.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
