Timson/Timpson, G J
GEORGE JAMES TIMSON
Remembered with honour Loos Memorial: Panel 65 to 67.
He enlisted in Richmond, Surrey; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 1 June 1915, and died of wounds received in action. Unfortunately, George’s Service record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of the late Henry William and Jane Louisa (nee TUCKWELL) TIMSON; nephew of Elizabeth Jane TUCKWELL of Richmond.
His parents married 11 May 1874 at St James the Great, Bethnal Green, London. Henry died 1909 aged 68; Jane died 1903 aged 51; both in the Richmond district.
George was born 1896 in Richmond.
On the 1901 Census, aged 4 he lived in Richmond with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, an errand boy aged 14, he still lived in Richmond.
Service number
708Rank
Private/Lance-CorporalUnit
7th BattalionRegiment
Date of death
13/10/1915Age at death
19Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)