19139, Lance Corporal, George Charles NOBLE, M.M.
Aged 33
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Born in Newmarket in Q1-1883 [Newmarket 3b:565] to George and Elizabeth NOBLE (née MARSHALL) of Grosvenor Yard, Newmarket.
"Soldiers Died" has him born in Exning.There is scope for confusion here since there were 2 George NOBLE, both with father George. Fortunately both sets of parents are named by
CWGC. Added to which another Newmarket George Charles NOBLE was a regular in the Royal Artillery,lived in Stoke Newington, and survived the war.
1891 census...George [8] was living in Grosvenor Yard, Newmarket, with his father George[42], a stableman born London; his mother Elizabeth [36] born Newmarket and his sister Amelia [14] born Newmarket. His mother died in 1895 and his father re married, to Alice Eliza PARR in Q1-1901 in Newmarket. 1901 census...George [18] a stableman, was boarding with John & Lucy Bassett in Albion Street, Newmarket. His father, a widower, was lodging with Thomas and Susan PURR in Grosvenor Yard, Newmarket. 1911 census...Not found in this census. It had been thought that he was in the Royal Garrison Artillery in India but that George Charles Noble, also born in Newmarket,(married to Evelyn Temple in 1913 in Stoke Newington) survived the war, to be discharged after 18 years service in 1924. His father and stepmother were living at Jarvis' Yard, Mill Hill, Newmarket. Records show him living in Stoke Newington, London on enlistment in Holloway, London. |
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George was awarded the Military Medal whilst a Private. The 1st Wiltshires were not in the initial attack at the Somme, but went into action against Thiepval
on the 4th/5th July. By the 7th they had lost 41 killed and on the 7th a further 30 men of the 1st Battalion lost their lives, 14 having no known grave. |
George found here, with 5 other Wiltshires, identified by boots and a pocket book,
and re-interred in A.I.F. Burial Ground in 1925 
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