GEORGE EDWARD PAYTON WW1 1917

[trevalyn]

GEORGE EDWARD PAYTON , aged 38, died on 9 June 1917 after having served with the Royal Garrison Artillery. His address at that time was 18 Handsworth Road, West Green where he lived with his wife Eleanor and son Leonard George. George was born in Stepney in 1879, Eleanor was born in Hoxton and Leonard in Hackney (1906).
In 1911 the family were at Handsworth Road; George was a sorter with London Postal Service. After George's death his wife and child appear to have moved to 331 Wightman Road, Hornsey.
George Edward Payton is one of the "forgotten soldiers" who died as a result of war service but was never commemorated as such. I am hoping to have his burial place designated as a War Grave.
Does anyone know where he is buried??  Any suggestions welcome.

[*Sandra*]

background info - commemorated on the Brookwood Memorial

FIND A GRAVE

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144168409/george-edward-payton

Debt of Honour database 2009

https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/123143-new-cwgc-commemorations/

[*Sandra*]

UK Soldiers who died in the Great War -    George Edward Payton
Birth Place   Stepney, Middx. - Residence   Wood Green, Middx.
Death Date   9 Jun 1917 Death Place   Home
Enlistment Place   London
Rank   Gunner Regiment   Royal Garrison Artillery - Regimental Number   157185

Have you checked the Wood Green area ?

Sandra

[*Sandra*]

1911 census is showing the address as 145 Russell Avenue, Wood Green, London N.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XW4K-X56

Probate shows he died Military Hospital Prees Heath Camp, Whitchurch, Shropshire.
Pneumonia  10 days

[*Sandra*]

Sadly Eleanor Fiddy/Payton passed away in 1924 - no burial info on either

Eleanor Payton 878 - 1924  (aged 46 years)
Registration Quarter   Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration district   Edmonton   Essex
Volume   3a Page   512

son Leonard G Payton 1906 - 1936  (aged 30 years)
Registration Quarter   Jan-Feb-Mar
Registration district   Essex South Western   Essex
Volume   4a  Page   436

[trevalyn]

Thank you, *Sandra*, your comments are very helpful and I will pursue.

[ALAMO2008]

You have again implied his Passing was a Result of his War Service
There no doubt he was still in Service at Prees Heath Camp with the 439 Siege Bty Royal Garrison Artillery as Gnr 157185 awaiting to go Overseas when he Died of Pneumonia aged 38
He was probably buried locally in the Whitchurch area unless the Army paid for the transfer of his Body to locally where his Wife Eleanor nee Fiddy and Son lived in 1917 but I would have expected the CWGC to know that and have Burial Records but his passing was Not brought to attention till - 11 May 2009
when he was finally added to Brookwood Memorial
His Death was Registered in December Quarter 1917 Whitchurch Volume 6a page 651

[*Sandra*]

It might be worth exploring Tilstock (Christ Church ) Churchyard apparently a lot of men who died at Prees Camp are buried in Tilstock.  (Tilstock Parish Church)

Sandra

[ALAMO2008]

Whitchurch Library may have the Burial Records for Tilstock Church - probably all the Soldiers are buried in Unmarked Plots
My Granddad in WW2 was a Guard when it was a POW there at Prees Heath Camp before he was Transferred to Olham Glenn Mill POW Camp where he Died in 1943 and awarded a CWGC Headstone back in Liverpool because he was in Service
The Prees Heath Camp site is now a MOD Grain Store

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitchurch_(Tilstock)_Airfield