George Henry Wardle
Tanners labourer in 1911
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He married his wife Violet Ethel Dickinson (born 5th May 1890) in 1912 in Nottingham they lived at 21 Church Street, Stapleford, Nottingham and later 91 Waterway Streeet, Meadows, Nottingham. they had 2 children, Joseph born 21st April 1913 and George Henry born 23rd February 1915.
In the 1911 census George Henry is shown as being 31 yrs single a tanners labourer he is living at 1 Duke Wellington's Gardens, Newark Street, Sneinton Nottingham, and is shown living with his mother Sarah Ann Smith 55 yrs , head of the family a hosiery winder
(his mother had remarried Thomas Smith born 1843 at Derby in 1890 in Nottingham he was a time keeper and he died in 1889 at Derby he was 39 ys old.
Rifleman George Henry Wardle, enlisted at Nottingham and served with the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps. He landed in France on 23rd November 1914 and was killed in action on 27th July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
additional research and information Peter Gillings
Photo of George Henry Wardle
Thiepval Memorial,