Geburtsdatum: 01/04/1887

Geburtsort: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Beruf: Clerk

Land: England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Truppe: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Corporal

Dienstnummer: 233960

Einberufung ort: Watford, Hertfordshire, England, Vereinigtes Königreich

Einheiten:  —  Royal Field Artillery, "A" Bty. 103rd Bde.  (Letzte bekannte Einheit)

Sterbedatum: 10/08/1917

Sterbeort: Lock N° 8, Belgien

Todesursache: Verwundet

Alter: 30

British War Medal Medaille

Victory Medal Medaille

Corporal George Thomas Deayton served with A Battery, 103rd (Howitzer) Brigade Royal Field Artillery. This Brigade was part of the 23rd Division. The war diary states that from the 1st of august Unil the 15th, the batteries and approaches were continually subject to enemy shelling, which resulted in heavy casualties. Corporal George Thomas Dayton was one of the wounded. The was taken to an advanced dressing station northeast of Voormezele, on the east bank of the Ypres-Komen canal between Lock N°8 and Lankhof Farm. He died of wounds on the 10th of august 1917 in this dressing station and was buried there. Later his remains were reburied in Aeroplane Cemetery.

Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/ Verwendete Quellen

CWGC https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/449705/deayton,-george-thomas/ Verwendete Quellen

Naval & Military Archive http://www.nmarchive.com/ Verwendete Quellen

The Long Long Trail https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ Verwendete Quellen

W.G. MacPherson, Medical Services General History : History of the Great War based on official documents, 139. Verwendete Quellen