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Died: | 13/03/1884 |
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Please note that this person is not acutally buried in Newtown Road Cemetery, but is remembered here on a family grave or memorial.
Listed below are all the details we have been able to find so far on Albert George Giles.
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Name at death | Albert George Giles | ||||||||||
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Age at death | 21 | ||||||||||
Gender at Death | Male | ||||||||||
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Transcriber's comments | Died in the battle of Tammanieb (Egypt) and is buried there. | ||||||||||
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Information Sources | Gravestone |
There is no burial register information available for Albert George Giles.
Only three of the five burial register books still exist as far as we know and these are held at the Berkshire Record Office.
Stillborn children were not recorded in the burial register, only in the cemetery accounts.
Headstone: In / Loving / Memory / of our dear father / Thomas Fisher / who fell asleep in Jesus / Nov. 10th. 1886 in his 67th. Year. / Also of William Albert Giles / grandson of the above / who died Feb. 15th. 1876 / aged 5 months. / Also / Albert George Giles / who fell fighting for his Queen / and country in the battle of / Tamanieb (Egypt) March 13th 1884 / aged 21 years. / Also of Ann Mary / wife of the above Thomas Fisher / who died Jan. 20th 1902 / aged 80 years. // Footstone:T.F. 1886 / W.A.G. 1876 / A.G.G. 1884 / A.M.F. 1902 // | |
Name on Memorial | Albert George GILES |
Date of death | 13/03/1884 |
Age | 21 |
Gender | Male |
Memorial Type | Headstone & footstone |
Construction Material | Sandstone. Engraved. |
Condition of memorial | Headstone slightly tilted sideways. Whole top layer of stone on East face with MI about to shear off. Bottom section of face already gone. Footstone leaning against West face of Headstone; part of MI sheared off. |
Pattison Location Code | ZZ12 |
Recorder's Notes | MI seriously at AT RISK due to frost weathered East face of headstone. Thomas was an agricultural labourer, living in Shefford & Elcot. The Giles family (bricklayers) were from Stroud Green, Greenham. Burial register gives age of William Albert as 4 months and of Ann Maria, of Ward's Building Greenham, as 79. Albert George Giles was bought up by his grandparents, Elizabeth & Richard Giles of Stroud Green. He was in the Royal Marine Light Infantry in Walmer, Kent aged 18 (18 census). He may have been William's uncle. Source of missing MI: Mrs P's records & dates from ancestry.co.uk |
Others named on memorial | |
Thomas FISHER | |
William Albert GILES | |
Mary Ann FISHER |
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