JUDD, George
No. B/200827, Rifleman, George JUDD
Aged 40
13th Battalion, Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort's Own)
Formerly T4/186059, Army Service Corps.
Killed in Action on Friday 28th September 1917
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Born in Witherley, Leicestershire in Q4-1877 [Atherstone 6d:493] only son of James and Mary Eaton JUDD (née AUGRAVE). He was baptised Major George
Whitmand JUDD at Mancetter on January 6th, 1878. 1881 census...At Watling Road, Witherley, were Major G W JUDD [3] with his father James [33] a soda water manufacturer, born Mettifont, Hampshire, his mother Mary Eaton [28] born Witherley, and his sisters Alice May [7], Florence Elizabeth [5] and Edith Blanche [0]. All the children were born in Witherley. 1891 census...George [13] was an apprentice at Primrose Cottage Stables [Alfred Sadler], Newmarket. The enumerator has transposed the place of birth with the entry above him. The whole family had moved to Newmarket (George's father died in 1890, registered in Newmarket). His widowed mother was at Oxford Street, Exning with his sisters Alice M [17], Florence E [15] Edith B [10] all born Witherley, sister Sarah L [8] born Mancetter, and grandmother Sarah AUGRAVE [78]. (Mancetter and Witherley are adjoining parishes on the outskirts of Atherston). 1901 census...George [22] was a groom, living at Bay Cottage, Exning with his mother and sisters Alice M (dressmaker) and Sarah L, a boot shop assistant 1911 census...George [33] was a stableman living with his mother Mary Eaton Judd in Exning. They were about to move it seems, judging by the "Our Exning Heroes entry and the CWGC have his mother's address as The Yews, Grove Road, Atherstone, Warwickshire, but George born in Exning which is presumably a transcription error "Soldiers Died" show him enlisting in Atherstone George's entry in "Our Exning Heroes" reads as follows: Judd, G. 13th Rifle Brigade George Judd, who was an only son, left Exning with his people some eight or nine years ago. At one time they lived at Grove Cottage, and afterwards resided, till they left the village, at Bay Cottage, opposite the school. He joined the A.S.C. on May 19th, 1916, but was transferred to the Rifle Brigade the same year, and was sent overseas on April 3rd, 1917. He was killed instantly on his birthday, September 28th, the same year. His Chaplain writes: "I want to write and tell you how much we out here are sharing your sorrow with you. Your boy was much loved by his many chums, and was most highly thought of by all, both officers and men….His grave, which is marked a cross bearing his name and regiment, and which will be carefully looked after, is in a cemetery by the Menin Road, near Ypres." He was 38 when he died. Before enlisting he was in the Stud, and worked at Moulton Paddocks for Sir Ernest Cassell. George's first grave shown here, he was moved to Hooge Crater in August 1919 |
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Have found no records of what the 13th Battalion were doing at that time, except that they were in trenches near the Menin Road.
George was the only death in the Battalion that entire week. |
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