George Henry Povey

POVEY, GEORGE

• Rank: Corporal
• Service No: 10459
• Date of Death: 11/02/1915
• Age: 23
• Regiment/Service: Cheshire Regiment 1st Bn.
• Panel Reference: Panel 19 - 22.
• Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
• Additional Information: Son of Mrs. Dinah Povey, of 51, Primrose Street, Connah Quay.
• * CWGC

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References, Sources and further Reading

• Book Shot at Dawn: The Fifteen Welshmen Executed by the British Army in the First World War by Robert King. Chapter 3.
• http://www.merseyside-at-war.org/story/shot-at-dawn-george-povey/
• http://grandadswar.mrallsophistory.com/shot_at_dawn.html

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Corporal POVEY, GEORGE

• Service Number 10459
• Died 11/02/1915
• Aged 23
• 1st Bn. Cheshire Regiment

Son of Mrs. Dinah Povey, of 51, Primrose Street, Connah Quay.

• Commemorated at YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
• Location: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Cemetery/memorial reference: Panel 19 - 22. https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1624699/
  

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• First name(s) George
• Last name Povey
• Year 1914-20
• Service number 10454
• Second service number 10454
• Rank Private Acting Corporal,Private
• Second rank Private
• Regiment Cheshire Regiment
• Second corps Cheshire Regiment
• Service record Soldier Number: 10454, Rank: Private Acting Corporal, Corps: Cheshire Regiment
• Second service record Soldier Number: 10454, Rank: Private, Corps: Cheshire Regiment
• Image link http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=D4693189
• Country Great Britain
• Medal type British Army Medal Index Cards, 1914-1920
• Archive reference WO372/16
  

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DEATH 11th February 1915

On 28/1/15, when in command of a section of a firing line, he left his trench and ran back to support trenches. He was tried for leaving his post, sentenced and shot at 7:45 am on 11/2/15.

"Shot at Dawn" by Julian Putkowski & Julian Sykes