Basic Details
Surname
Hurry
Forenames
George William
Gender
Male
Information stated on memorial
Served or died
Died
Service number
23741
Notes
The Roll lists his address as 191 Eastfield Road.

(CWGC records that Private G W Hurry, regimental number 23741, died on 25/2/1917 serving in 2nd Battalion Norfolk Regiment, and is buried in grave XXIX.B. 57/66 at Amara War Cemetery in Iraq. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Thorney who enlisted at Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at 22 Combined Field Ambulance in Mesopotamia, and that his mother Maria was his legatee. On the 1911 census he had been 18 years old, living with his parents John and Maria in Eye Road, Newark. His birth was registered in 1892).
Primary Service
As stated on memorial
Service (Primary - Stated)
Army
Unit (Primary - Stated)
Norfolks
Sub-unit (Primary - Stated)
2nd
Rank / Title (Primary - Stated)
Pte
Our References
Service (Primary - Our reference)
Unit (Primary - Our reference)
Rank / Title (Primary - Our reference)
Death and Burial details
Country of death
Not stated on memorial
Country of burial
Not Stated on Memorial
Cemetery
Not Stated on Memorial
Year of death
1917
Month of death
February
Day of death
25
Manner of death as stated
Killed in action in Mesopotamia
Manner of death reference
Killed in Action
Personal Details
Address
191, EASTFIELD RD
Occupation
Not Stated on Memorial