Name
George Tapley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
56175
Labour Corps
163rd Labour Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
George Tapley was born in the summer of 1885 at Weedon, six miles west of Northampton. He was baptised Louis George Tapley, and was one of four children in the Tapley family. The 1891 Census indicated that Emmanuel Tapley and his wife Lavinia had four children, Louis and Albert Tapley, and two step-daughters, Mary and Ada Hurlstone, presumably from Lavinia’s previous marriage. In 1891 Emmanuel worked as an Agricultural Labourer, and the family lived at Nether Heyford in Northamptonshire. In 1901 Emmanuel was employed as a Builder’s Carter, and the family had moved to nearby Lower Weedon, but by this time George had left the family home
George Tapley married in the 1910 and in the spring of 1915 a son was born at Watford, and was christened on 6th July 1915.
He was first recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in September 1916, but his unit was not identified. It was not until the Roll of Honour listing of January 1918 that George’s unit was recorded. He was listed serving with the Labour Corps, and the Absent Voter Record for Abbots Langley for Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 confirmed that he served with the 163rd Labour Company of the Labour Corps, and he gave his address at Railway Terrace, Abbots Langley.
George Tapley survived the War.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
