Calcott, George Reginald Charles

CALCOTT,

GEORGE REGINALD CHARLES

BORN 3 NOVEMBER 1884

George Reginald Charles

Calcott was born in Bristol on 3 November 1884, son of Benjamin Calcott (b 1853 in Bristol) and Louisa Calcott (née Bishop b 1853 in Portsmouth, Hampshire).

Benjamin and Louisa were married in Portsmouth on 5 February 1878. George was one of four children and had three sisters, Eleanor C (b 1879), Violet (b 1880), Dorothy (b. 1882) and Annie Marjorie (b 1890). In the 1891 census, George was living with his parents, Dorothy and Annie at Portland Square, Bristol. Benjamin was at that time a Provision Merchant.

George entered School on 15 January 1895, aged 10, though it is not clear when he left, the School records seems to suggest around 1900. In the 1901 census George was living at 5 Belgrave Road, Bristol together with his parents and sisters Eleanor and Annie.

George was killed in action on 5 November 1916, aged 32. At that time, he was a Lance Corporal in the Worcester Regiment, 2nd Battalion. He previously served with the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars.

He left behind his widowed mother, Louisa, of West Town, Backwell. His father Benjamin died in 1914.

George’s name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial, (grave reference Pier and Face 5A and 6C). This memorial commemorates more than 72000 men of British and South African forces who have no known grave and who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918. The majority of those on the memorial died during the Somme offensive of 1916.

The Thiepval memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and is the largest Commonwealth Memorial to the missing in the world. It overlooks the Somme River in France, an area where some of the heaviest fighting took place in the First World War.

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