GEORGE HENRY UDALL |
Private 55881
1st. Btn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Regt.
Died Wednesday 21st. November 1917
Commemorated: Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A. Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebake, West-Vlaandeeren, Belgium.
George Henry Udall was born in Mansfield, Notts and
enlisted at Eastwood. We have not managed to trace any relatives as yet, but we
do know that he was an employee of ‘The Jacksdale Co-Operative Baking Society
Ltd’, situated in Dixie Street, Jacksdale (established in 1902), but now
derelict. He is mentioned in a report on the Bakery written in August 1933
which states:-
“Mr G. Udall, our only employee who went to the war, was killed in action in 1917.”
We also know, from The Soldiers Died in the Great War CD
ROM, that he joined the 1st Battalion on 12th December 1916, serving with
‘D’ company. It also states that he was wounded on 8th June 1917, being in a
casualty clearing station on the 10th June. He returned for duty on 20th August
1917. Only three months later on Wednesday 21st November, he was killed in
action by German shellfire when serving in the trenches near Bellevue, Belgium,
age unknown.
He has no known grave and is commemorated at The Tyne Cot
Memorial, Passchendaele, Belgium. Memorial to those, “whom the fortune of war
denied the known and honoured burial.” There are 35,000 with no known grave at
Tyne Cot Memorial.
In early 2001 a coach party, arranged by a local touring
company called ‘Henshaw’s’, visited the Tyne Cot Memorial and expressly
sought out where George is commemorated. A
video and several photograph’s were kindly taken by local residents, Dorianne
and Ray Tyson.
Last Updated:
05th Sep 2002