Name
Mark Gurney (MM)
01/08/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
GS/67233
London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers)
2nd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
UK Book of Remembrance
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Wigginton Village Memorial,
UK Book of Remembrance, CWGC HQ, Marlow Road, Maidenhead
Pre War
Mark Gurney was born on 1st August 1898 in Wigginton, Herts, the son of Charles Gurney (B 1862 in Wigginton) and Eliza Gurney (nee Dell) (B 1868 in Wigginton).
1901 Census records Mark aged 2, living with his parents, brothers James 12, William 11, Mathew 7 months, sisters Fanny 8, Lucey 6 and Edith 4, at Back of Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
1911 Census records Mark aged 12, at school, living with his parents, brothers James, Mathew, George 5, sisters Fanny, Lucy, Edith and Louisa 4, at Back of Brewhouse, Wigginton, Herts.
Wartime Service
On his enlistment Mark was posted to the 2nd/2nd Battalion, London Regiment, Royal Fusiliers with the Service No. G/67233. Arriving in France on 21st July 1917.
Mark was awarded the Military Medal. His award was published in the London Gazette on 12th December 1917. The Citation reads "For bravery and grit in carrying messages under shell fire".
Mark was killed by a shell on 26th October 1917, in France. He was aged 19. (Possible while carrying messages).
Additional Information
The value of his effect were £2-15s-8d, Pay owing and £3, War Gratuity, which went to his mother Eliza.
The Wigginton Village Memorial gives his Regiment as "The Buffs".
His elder brother Private 14225 James Gurney on the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, was Killed in Action on 27th September 1916. Aged 27.
No record was found in the CWGC records of his place of burial.The United Kingdom Book of Remembrance (CWGC) commemorates United Kingdom casualties of the two World Wars who were not formerly recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The men and women remembered here are presently commemorated solely by their database and register entry. The Commission will continue to investigate the grave location details.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Stuart Osborne
