HAILSTONE George Rupert

  • First Name(s):
    George 
    Rupert 
  • Surname:
    HAILSTONE
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Captain

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Welch Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    1st/7th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    6th November 1917
  • Age At Death:
    25
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Beersheba War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine, Grave H. 82.
  • Place of Birth:
    Southsea, Portsmouth
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Commander Walter Hailstone, R.N., and Mary Beatrice Hailstone (nee Blaxland), 21 Lansdown Terrace, Cheltenham

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HAILSTONE George Rupert Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Further Information About HAILSTONE George Rupert

George Hailstone was born in 1892 in Portsmouth.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1907 to 1910.  Hailstone went up to St John’s, Cambridge and was in residence there when the War broke out.  He obtained a commission in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and after service was given a staff appointment.  This he resigned in order to share with his own Regiment in the advance in Palestine.  As he was leading his men in the assault, he was shot through the temple.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

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