The Battalion arrived at Boulogne on the 23/08/1914 and were part of the 10th Brigade, 4th Division. George was Killed in Action at the Battle of Valenciennes just 9 days before the Armistice. The Battle was part of the final advance in Picardy : 17 October - 11 November 1918. The hardest-fought of the final offensive actions. First, Third and Fourth Armies exploited their success in breaking the Hindenburg Line by pushing on across the Rivers Selle and Sambre, recapturing Valenciennes and finally in liberating Mons, where it had all begun for the British Expeditionary Force more than four years before. George was previously buried in Saulzoir Communal Cemetery Extension (see Reburial Form x 2). St. Souplet village was captured by the American 30th Division on the 10th October 1918. The American troops made a cemetery of 371 American and seven British graves on the South-West side of the village, on the road to Vaux-Andigny. A smaller British cemetery was made alongside. The American graves were removed after the Armistice and the seven British graves were moved into the British cemetery. Further British graves were brought in from the surrounding battlefields and smaller burial ground including Saulzoir Communal Cemetery Extension. George's Grave photo was kindly donated by Mick McCann at the British War Graves website who supply photos FREE OF CHARGE
here. See photos for George's Medal Index Card, his Army Register of Soldiers Effects, his Service Medal and Award Rolls, his CWGC Grave Registration x 2, his Headstone Report, St. Souplet British Cemetery, George's Pension Records x 2, the Highland Light Infantry Cap Badge, a map from the British Official History, illustrating progress made during the Battle of Valenciennes (the 4th Division were part of XXII Corps) and a British Artillery limber in the ruined Place du Faubourg de Paris at Valenciennes on the 3rd November 1918.
