Saturday 7 November 2009

1232 Pte George Alfred Moreton, 2nd Bn, Royal Warwickshire Regt

1232 Private George Alfred Moreton of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment lost his life on this day, 95 years ago. He was killed in action on the 7th November 1914. His medal index card - held in the name of George A Morton - notes that he arrived overseas on 4th October 1914, and his army number indicates that he joined the Royal Warwickshire Regiment around September 1908.

George Moreton has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres. Soldiers Died in The Great War records that he was born in Birmingham and enlisted in Warwick.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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