Name
George Alan Ansell
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
15/10/1940
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Signalman
2337656
Royal Corps of Signals
Third Army Sigs.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HITCHIN CEMETERY
S.E. Extn. Grave 56.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial
Biography
He was educated at the Convent and St. Mary's Schools, Hitchin. For six years he was employed by Stanley Lee's electrical business and was well known in the town. At the time he enlisted he stated that he had been born in Hertfordshire and was resident there. He was given the Service Number 2337656 and stationed in London with the 3rd Army Signals.
He was reported missing but eventually it was confirmed that he had been fatally injured by enemy action. There was a heavy raid on London during the night of his death.
He is buried in Hitchin Cemetery with a private headstone in the Southeast Extension Grave 56.
His home was at ‘Ramleh’, Offley Road, Hitchin and he was the only son of Mrs Alice E. Ansell whose husband had died some 23 years earlier. He had a sister who lived in Grantham.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Paul Johnson - local historian, ‘The Second Great War’ by J.A. Hammerton, Herts Pictorial dated 22nd Oct & 3rd Dec 1940, Herts & Beds Express dated 30th Nov 1940
