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GILBERT GEORGE WAKEFORD (also known as FURBER)

Died : 22 Jul 1917
Rank : Lieutenant
Service no at death: 20729
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Surname: WAKEFORD (also known as FURBER)
Forename: GILBERT GEORGE
Initials: GG
Date of Birth 1890
Place of BirthToxteth, Liverpool
Place of Birth SourceParish Registers
Address 1901 Census shows him as “adopted son” to Charles and Martha Wakeford, at Ethelbert Terrace, Wimborne.
Schools attended
Employment / tradeWHSmith Station Bookstall, Wimborne Station, later WHS Bookstall at Weymouth Station, later French Foreign Legion.
Place of workSee “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,Seine-et-Marne.
NotesHe seems to have used the surname Furber for his marriage and for all of his time in the British Army.
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Decorations and awards
Other service detailsAfter apparently serving in the French Foreign Legion, he joined the 12th Battalion, York’s and Lancs Regiment.Fought in Dardanelles, Egypt and France.
Other rankLieutenant
Other service no20729
Service factsApparently attached to a Scottish Regiment at time of death, possibly 1st Gordon Highlanders.26
Age at death26
Date of death 22 Jul 1917
Regiment at death
Battalion at death
Rank at deathLieutenant
Circumstances of deathDied of wounds.
Service no at death20729
Field of action at deathFrance
Place of deathFrance
Location of graveDuisans British Cemetery,Etrun,Pas-de-Calais, France
Position
Other memorialsSt John’s Church, Wimborne;Town Memorial, Wimborne Minster and plaque within Minster.
Newspaper Reference Western Gazette for 3/8/1917