Pte
George Patrick Gardiner

Informations sur naissance

Année de naissance:
1881
Lieu de naissance:
Bungay, Suffolk, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni

Informations générales

Profession:
Entrepeneur

Informations service militaire

Pays:
Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Force armée:
British Expeditionary Force
Rang:
Private
Numéro de service:
40880
Incorporation nom de lieu:
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Angleterre, Royaume-Uni
Unités:
 —  Hertfordshire Regiment, 1/1st Bn.  (Dernière unité connue)

Informations sur décès

Date de décès:
24/09/1917
Lieu de décès:
Bitter Wood, Belgique
Cause du décès:
Killed in action (K.I.A.)
Âge:
36

Mémorial

Tyne Cot Memorial
Panneau: 49A

Distinctions et médailles 2

British War Medal
Médaille — 25/10/1920
Victory Medal
Médaille — 25/10/1920

Points d'intérêt 2

#1 Lieu de naissance
#2 Lieu d'enrôlement

Mon histoire

George Patrick Gardiner was a 36-year old Building contractor from Bungay, Suffolk. He was married to Ethel Johnson in 1905. They had four children together, two girls and two boys.

George was possibly conscripted in the army in 1916. He firstly served in the Bedfordshire Regiment, but by the time of the Battle of Passchendaele he was posted to the Hertfordshire Regiment, 1/1st Battalion.

On 23 September 1917 George’s Battalion relieved the 1st Cambridgeshire in the frontline, taking over the line captured by the 41st Division on the 20th of September. The Battalion took up positions in the Shrewsbury Forrest area in Bitter and Stout Wood. The 1/1st Hertfordshire held the line for two days until they were relieved on the 25th.

Private George Patrick Gardiner was killed in action on 24 September 1917. He possibly fell, due to German shellfire while holding the line near Bitter and Stout Wood. George has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

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Sources 5

"The 16th Foot : a history of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment", London, Constable & Company, 1936 , pg; 186.
Sources utilisées
Ancestry
https://www.ancestry.com/
Autre référence
CWGC
https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/839552/gardiner,-george-patrick/
Sources utilisées
The Long, Long Trail
https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/
Sources utilisées
War Diary Hertfordshire Regiment, 1/1st Bn.
http://www.nmarchive.com/
Autre référence