GILES John Samuel

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Samuel 
  • Surname:
    GILES
  • Service Number:
    92430
  • Rank:

    Gunner

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Artillery
  • Brigade:
    45th Brigade
  • Regiment:
    Royal Field Artillery
  • Unit:
    3rd Battery
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    2nd August 1917
  • Age At Death:
    26
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, Belgium, Grave I. I. 2.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Samuel and Emily Giles, 11 Lower Chestnut, Worcester

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GILES John Samuel Is Named On These Memorials

Worcester Guildhall
Worcester Shrub Hill Station GWR Sheet Dept WW1 Roll of Honour

Further Information About GILES John Samuel

Great Western Railway Roll of Honour:
John Samuel Giles Sheet Repairer/Goods Department/Worcester Gunner, 3rd Battery 45th Brigade Royal Field Artillery, Killed in Action 2/8/1917.

Source: The Great Western Railway in the First World War by Sandra Gittins, 2010.

Death reported in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1917/10/201. Photo in the Great Western Railway staff magazine, reference 1917/11/224
Source:  http://www.nrm.org.uk/RailwayStories/worldwarone.aspx

A photograph of Gunner J.S. Giles of Worcester can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 3rd November 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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