Private G.H. Yeo  Service number G/92434 royal-artillery_badge

Regiment Royal Fusiliers

Date of birth 17th October 1897

Date of death 24th November 1918

Age at death 21 years

His Story

George Henry, the eldest child of Henry and Ellen Yeo, was born in 1897. Serving in the 9th London Regiment as a Private from July 1917 to February 1918 before he transferred 18th Kings Royal Rifles Corps between July-August 1918 and then to the 3rd London Regiment. He died in the Temporary Military Hospital, Gosforth, Northumberland on 24 November 1918 and was buried in Grave R1542 on 4th December 1918.

Details of George Henry Yeo’s life and family are available in our publication “Hidden Histories”

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