GILBERT GEORGE WAKEFORD (also known as FURBER)

Surname: WAKEFORD (also known as FURBER)
Forename: GILBERT GEORGE
Initials: GG
Date of Birth: 1890
Place of Birth: Toxteth, Liverpool
Place of Birth Source: Parish Registers
Address: 1901 Census shows him as “adopted son” to Charles and Martha Wakeford, at Ethelbert Terrace, Wimborne.
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Employment / trade: WHSmith Station Bookstall, Wimborne Station, later WHS Bookstall at Weymouth Station, later French Foreign Legion.
Place of work: See “Employment.”
Family (parents and grandparents): Mother, Elizabeth Furber of 17, Ruby St, Liverpool. Adopted parents Charles and Martha Wakeford.
Spouse Name: Charlotte Henrietta Cuntz Furber, of 35 Rue du Chateau,Fontainebleau,SeineetMarne.
Notes: He seems to have used the surname Furber for his marriage and for all of his time in the British Army.

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Source: Parish Registers
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Other service details: After apparently serving in the French Foreign Legion, he joined the 12th Battalion, York’s and Lancs Regiment.Fought in Dardanelles, Egypt and France.
Other rank: Lieutenant
Other service no: 20729
Service facts: Apparently attached to a Scottish Regiment at time of death, possibly 1st Gordon Highlanders.26

Age at death: 26
Date of death: 22 Jul 1917
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Rank at death: Lieutenant
Circumstances of death: Died of wounds.
Service no at death: 20729
Field of action at death: France
Place of death: France
Location of grave: Duisans British Cemetery,Etrun,PasdeCalais, France
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Other memorials: St John’s Church, Wimborne;Town Memorial, Wimborne Minster and plaque within Minster.
Newspaper Reference : Western Gazette for 3/8/1917

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