Date de naissance: 01/04/1887

Lieu de naissance: Watford, Hertfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Profession: Clerk

Pays: Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Force armée: British Expeditionary Force

Rang: Corporal

Numéro de service: 233960

Incorporation nom de lieu: Watford, Hertfordshire, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Unités:  —  Royal Field Artillery, "A" Bty. 103rd Bde.  (Dernière unité connue)

Date de décès: 10/08/1917

Lieu de décès: Lock N° 8, Belgique

Cause du décès: Died of wounds (D.O.W.)

Âge: 30

British War Medal Médaille

Victory Medal Médaille

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/ Sources utilisées

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

Naval & Military Archive http://www.nmarchive.com/ Sources utilisées

The Long Long Trail https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/ Sources utilisées

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