See also

George Frederick Gillingham (1890-1916)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Occupation:

  •  

  • shop assistant2

  • Birth:

  • Dec 1890

  • Newmarket, Suffolk, England2,3,4,5

  • Census:

  • 5 Apr 1891 (age 4 mns)

  • 9 Side Hill Terrace, Cheveley Road, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, England4

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents George and Harriet, and a lodger. Born in Newmarket Cambridgeshire

  • Census:

  • 31 Mar 1901 (age 10)

  • Cheveley Road, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, England5

  •  

  • son living in four rooms with his parents George and Harriet, and brother James. Born in Newmarket Cambridgeshire

  • Census:

  • 2 Apr 1911 (age 20)

  • 4 Melton Cottages, Park Lane, Newmarket, Suffolk, England2

  •  

  • unmarried son working as a shop assistant selling boots and living in five rooms with his parents George and Harriet, and brother James. Born in Newmarket Cambridgeshire

  • Death:

  • 9 Aug 1916 (age 25)6,7

  •  

  •  

  • Cause: in action

    rifleman no:R/20456 of 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, born at Newmarket, Cambs. Son of George William and Harriet Gillingham, of Railway Cottages, Stoke Ferry Station, Norfolk

  • War Memorial:

  •  

  • Newmarket, Suffolk, England7

  • Burial:

  •  

  • Bazentin-le-Petit Communal Cemetery Extension, Rue Neuve, Bazentin, Somme, France6,7

  •  

  • buried section:J plot:5

Sources

1.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Newmarket 1891 quarter:1 volume:3b page:531.

2.

England and Wales Census 1911, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG14 piece:9178 class:RG78 piece:489 registration district:183 sub-district:2 enumeration district:2 schedule:220. Cit. Date: 27 October 2019.

3.

England and Wales Birth Index 1837 - 2021, (on-line at www.gro.gov.uk, www.findmypast.co.uk and www.ancestry.co.uk). Newmarket 1891 quarter:1 volume:3b page:531. Cit. Date: 27 October 2019.

4.

England and Wales Census 1891, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG12 piece:1292 folio:126 page:13. Cit. Date: 27 October 2019.

5.

England and Wales Census 1901, (on-line at www.ancestry.co.uk and www.findmypast.co.uk). class:RG13 piece:1538 folio:7 page:5. Cit. Date: 27 October 2019.

6.

Commonwealth War Grave Commission, (on-line at www.cwgc.org). no:R/20456 2nd Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. Cit. Date: 27 October 2019.

7.

Suffolk Roll of Honour web site, (on-line at http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/). http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Newmarket.html. Cit. Date: 20 December 1999.