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Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

21 March - 4 July 1918. The Battles of the Somme in 1918 were mostly concerned with stemming the German advance which started in March 1918 and which made considerable gains in the Somme/Arras sector. Utilising surplus troops which had become available following the surrender of Russia after the October Revolution, the Germans gambled on a massive campaign that could win the war in the west before the USA could bring its resources to bear. Initial gains were in places spectacular but eventually dogged resistance coupled with supply problems and sheer exhaustion closed down the battle. Other attacks were launched along the front to probe the Allied defences but the same pattern of initial gains followed by stalemate prevailed. British casualties were almost 345,000.

Detail :

James Hyde: "As for LT Cranmore KIA 19/7/18 serving with 2/10th. The Battalion was in the Area of ST Laurent Farm In divisional Reserve. On the 19th LT Cranmore, 1 Other rank and 3 wounded in Support line and 2 wounded on Duty most definitely by a Shell. He is buried in Bavelincourt Communal cemetery with 2 other soldiers of the 2/10th London Regiment."

The War Diary records the fatal day: "19th July - Support Line, Casualties:- Lieut. G.W. Cranmore killed and 1 OR and 3 wounded, + 2 wounded at Duty."

Ealing Gazette and West Middlesex Observer 3rd August 1918 - "LIEUTENANT GEO. CRANMORE - It is our painful duty again to have to record the sad loss of Lieutenant George William Cranmore, 2/10th London Regiment, second eldest son of Lieutenant and Mrs. J.E. Jubb, 15, Clifton-road, Southall, he being the second son making the extreme sacrifice within three months. The sad duty of conveying the news was upon another brother, who was sent for to where his brother was taken, and afterwards was allowed to attend the funeral. Previous to his joining the Forces, in the early part of 1915, he was carrying on business as builder and decorator, he putting this aside to take his part in the great cause. He had been in France over two years, having previously been wounded in 1916. His bereaved wife has received many letters of sympathy from his associates, among them being one from the Captain, who says it is a loss to the Battalion that can never be replaced. He leaves a wife and four children to mourn the loss."

There is a mention of Lt. Cranmore at the Biography for See also: Rifleman Guy Alexander Burnsides at the Wetherby War Memorial website:

"Remaining in support and with a further two O/R's wounded on the 18th, it was during the following day that the battalion lost an officer who had served with the battalion since November 1917. Lieutenant George William Cranmore, a married man of Storrington, Sussex, who had been commissioned into the 10th London Regiment in August 1915, was unfortunately killed along with one Other Rank, Private John William Johnson, 425811, resident of Deptford and aged just 18 years who died of wounds. Lieutenant Cranmore is now buried in Bavelincourt Communal Cemetery whilst Private Johnson now lies at rest at Montigny Communal Cemetery his epitaph chosen by his family simply reading "A Mother's Love A Father's Care It Was God's Will He Should Lay Here."

He Willed his estate to a Rifleman, Stuart James Stanmore, of the 12th London (Rangers) Regiment and to the solicitor, William Berriman Tippetts, to the sum of £1086 1s. 10d.

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Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley