Private George Brewster, 25364

  • Batt - 4
  • Unit - Worcestershire Regiment
  • Section -
  • Date of Birth - 1897
  • Died - 20/04/1917
  • Age - 19

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of George Brewster a bricklayer, born 1866 in Oakham, Rutland and his wife Elizabeth, born 1864 in Wood Newton, Northants. George was born in 1897 in Oakham, Rutland, his siblings were Annie E, born 1892, Edith M., born 1894 and Ernest, born 1900, all his siblings were born in Oakham, Rutland, in March 1901 the family home was at Northgate Street, Oakham, Rutland. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment, but was transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment, embarking for France on the 24th November 1915. He was killed by a shell during the Battle of Arras, when his regiment was involved in an action at Monchy, in which two battalions held up a whole division and shattered a considerable attack, during which course both battalions were practically annihilated.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
George BREWSTER
Private, 4th Battalion, The Worcestershire Regiment, 88 Brigade, 29th Division. Army no. 25364
He was killed in action near Arras on 20 April 1917. He was 20.
He was the son of George and Elizabeth Brewster, 58 Northgate Street, Oakham
He is remembered on Bay 6 Arras Memorial
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M Allbrook 2013

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Worcestershire Regiment
  • Former Unit - 10th Bn. Leicestershire Regt.
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Burial Commemoration - Arras Mem., Pas De Calais, France
  • Born - Oakham, Rutland
  • Enlisted - 29/5/15 In Oakham, Rutland
  • Place of Residence - 58 Northgate Street, Oakham, Rutland, England
  • Memorial - ALL SAINT'S CHYRD. MEM., OAKHAM, RUTLAND

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