George Harvey (1884-1918)
8TH AUGUST
On the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Amiens, we remember Harvey’s great-grandfather, George Harvey, who was wounded on 8th August 1918.
He was a Sapper in B Company, 9th Battalion, Canadian Engineers and received a gunshot wound to the shoulder whilst the “3rd Canadian Division successfully attacked the enemy positions between the Andrea Ravine and Hangard, inclusive, at 4.20am. During the course of the operations, Lieut. Byron, and 4 O.R.s [Other Ranks] who were with a party, under command of Lieut. Jones, were wounded.”
George was taken to No. 9 General Hospital at Rouen where he succumbed to his wounds and died on 10th August. He is buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension in Rouen.
George Harvey’s Headstone in
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France
George is commemorated on the War Memorial in his home town of Newlyn in Cornwall and is also memorialized on a stone in the wall of the Centenary Primitive Methodist Church, which is situated at the top of Boase Street where he lived in 1909.
George Harvey is commemorated on the War Memorial in Newlyn (click to enlarge)
The Stone laid in Memory of George Harvey in the Wall of the
Centenary Primitive Methodist Church in Newlyn
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