Private 12967 George ADCOCK

Private 12967 George Adcock{gallery}Pte G Adock{/gallery}4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (London Regiment)
Died of wounds in The Actions of St Eloi Craters, France and Flanders, 4th April 1916, aged 46

• Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Thomas Bosworth and Frances Adcock
  
• Husband of Jane Adcock [nee Anthony]. Married at St John The Evangelist, Cape Town, South Africa, 8 Jun 1897
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI Other Regiments
• Other Memorial(s): Blackfordby and Higham on the Hill, both in Leicestershire

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Adcock
• Etaples Military Cemetery
• Royal Fusiliers

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born c1869 and baptised 11 Jul 1869 at Blackfordby, Leics
• Departed Southampton for Cape Town, South Africa 23 May 1896
• Lived at Craddock, South Africa [1897]
  
• Lived at Higham on the Hill, Leics [1911]
• Lived at Nuneaton [1916 – Soldiers Who Died in the Great War]
  
• Employed as an engine driver in South Africa [1897]
• Employed as a market gardener [1911]
• Served in Boer War as a driver WO100/279 with Cape Government Railways
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton. Arrived in France 6 Jul 1915