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G. E. Lickfold

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Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

G. E. Lickfold

Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private George Edward Lickfold.   Born in October 1881 in Kensington, the son of John H. and Eliza Lickfold. His father was a house painter. He attended Fox School, Silver Street (now renamed Kensington Church Street), Kensington from the 3rd May 1886 until 19th February 1895 when he left to start work. The 1891 census shows him living with his parents and William J.H. Lickfold (an older brother) and Albert E. Lickfold (a younger brother), at 36 Dartmoor Street (now renamed Hillgate Place), Kensington. In March 1910 he was appointed as a Postman in the London Postal Service, South West. The 1911 census shows him living at 13 Farmer Street, West Kensington with his widowed mother and a nephew call Samuel Poole and in September that year was transferred as a Postman to the London Western District Office. He joined the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, service number 5761, and entered France on the 12th September 1914. He was Killed in Action on the 12th April 1915 at Oesthoek, Belgium, aged 33 years and was originally buried in Bedford House Cemetery (Enclosure No.5), Zillebeke, but after the armistice was re-buried in Grave III. B. 40 at the Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. Probate of his estate was granted to his widowed mother and his effects amounted £124-8s-0d. He was posthumously awarded The 1914 Star, The British War Medal, 1914-1918 and The Victory Medal.

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