TOMBS George Henry

  • First Name(s):
    George 
    Henry 
  • Surname:
    TOMBS
  • Service Number:
    307347
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment)
  • Battalion:
    2nd/8th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    17th April 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Thiepval Memorial, France, Pier and Face 10C 10D and 11A.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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TOMBS George Henry Is Named On These Memorials

Stourbridge St John’s School now in Stourbridge St John’s Church
Stourbridge War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Stourbridge War Memorial surname spelt Tombs.
Stourbridge St John’s Church surname spelt Toombs.
Stourbridge St John’s School now in Stourbridge St John’s Church surname spelt Tombes.

Further Information About TOMBS George Henry

Enlisted Stourbridge, Worcestershire.

The birth of George Henry Tombs is registered in the December Quarter 1882 under the Stourbridge Registration District.

George Tombs lived at 15 Church Street, Stourbridge. He enlisted in the Worcester Territorials and went to France in the Spring of 1916. However, after injury and return to the front he was sent to the 2nd/8th Sherwood Foresters in the 59th Division. While fighting on the Somme front he was taken prisoner by the Germans on 7th April 1917. Private George Tombs was regarded as missing believed dead and this was eventually verified by an official German list of British dead in January 1918. His name was consequently commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme.

George Tombs has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Thiepval Memorial.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society. Birth registration researched by Sandra Taylor.