Biography:
George Edward Stracey
1877 –1929
George Edward Stracey
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Unmarked grave George Edward Stracey (1877-1929)
George was born in 1877 in Wiggington to Joseph and Sarah (née Fincher) Stracey. His father was a general labourer and by 1881 they lived in King Street, Tring.
At the age of 19, a labourer, George enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment on 12 November 1894. He signed the attestation papers with an X. He was 5’ 7 ½ ” tall, with brown hair and grey eyes.
He served 12 years as a private and was discharged 26 November 1906 having served in India from 11 February 1896 to 23 November 1906.
In 1911 George was a carter for the London & NW Railway co. and was a boarder at 40, Shrublands Avenue. Another boarder in the house was Clara Davis whom he married 1 February 1919 in Berkhamsted
In July 1920, while working as a roadman, he was a witness in a road traffic fatality involving a motor cycle and sidecar and an eleven year old boy, Frank Strickland, who is buried in plot 644.
The June 1921 census records him as a roadman with the Urban District Council, living at 68, Shrublands Avenue where he died in September 1929 aged 52.
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Unmarked grave George Edward Stracey (1877-1929)
George was born in 1877 in Wiggington to Joseph and Sarah (née Fincher) Stracey. His father was a general labourer and by 1881 they lived in King Street, Tring.
At the age of 19, a labourer, George enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment on 12 November 1894. He signed the attestation papers with an X. He was 5’ 7 ½ ” tall, with brown hair and grey eyes.
He served 12 years as a private and was discharged 26 November 1906 having served in India from 11 February 1896 to 23 November 1906.
In 1911 George was a carter for the London & NW Railway co. and was a boarder at 40, Shrublands Avenue. Another boarder in the house was Clara Davis whom he married 1 February 1919 in Berkhamsted
In July 1920, while working as a roadman, he was a witness in a road traffic fatality involving a motor cycle and sidecar and an eleven year old boy, Frank Strickland, who is buried in plot 644.
The June 1921 census records him as a roadman with the Urban District Council, living at 68, Shrublands Avenue where he died in September 1929 aged 52.
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