Name
George Frederick March
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the St Edmund's College Memorial, Old Hall Green
Biography
The following text was transcribed from the The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College:
George Frederick March was born in 1888 and came to the College in 1904. He passed through the classes of Grammar and Syntax, and left after the Midsummer Term, 1906. He was popular alike with his professors and schoolmates, and his unfailing kindness .and good nature endeared him to all, making lifelong friends of those who got to know him well. He was a thorough sportsman, both in achievements and instincts, and left a fine record behind him at St. Edmunds, and. later in China had many trophies to his credit. Soon after leaving the College he obtained .an appointment in the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs and served at Peking, Ching-King, Canton and other places. He was an excellent Chinese scholar and knew the language well. Like all Englishmen, he came home at the call of duty, giving up his established and what. promised to be highly successful career. He joined an O.T.C. on arrival in .England and was on the, point of obtaining a commission in the "Buffs", but the malarial fevers of China had weakened his resisting powers, and the fatigues and hardships of training brought on acute consumption of the lungs, to which he succumbed on the 24th January, aged 27. His name is as surely inscribed on the Roll of Honour as if he had fallen on the battlefield. We offer our deepest sympathy to his family.
Additional Information
Not listed in the CWGC records
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Di Vanderson, The Edmundian (1814-1819) – The contemporary magazine of St Edmund’s College
