nigelweysom
10-10-2008, 19:52
Fort George Military Cemetery
occupying a position above the harbour of St Peter Port Guernsey sits Fort George , now filled with houses built in the 1960s it was once filled with soldiers from many regiments , including not surprisingly the Guernsey Militia and the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, this last regiment being formed in the second half of the great war when the States of Guernsey answered the call for men by introducing conscription , despite the fact that there had been no conscription prior to this there was no shortage of Guernsey men who had volonteered , my Grand Father Frederick weysom had lied about his age and joined the Guernsey service company aged 16 and had transferred to the Gordon Highlanders ,many others had been placed in the Irish regiments due to a shortage of men from there, within this British Army garrison can be found Fort George Military cemetery
this cemetery contains over 200 graves containing men from 16 army regiments ,two airmen , one royal marine , family members from the garrison and one hundred and eleven men from the occupying German forces of world war two.
the regiments included are, the Queens own Royal west Kent reg the Royal Irish reg the Royal Engineers the Royal Defence corps the Prince of Wales North Staffordshire reg the middlesex reg the Grenadier Guards the Wiltshire reg the North Yorkshire reg the Manchester reg the Lincolnshire reg the Royal Artillery the Army Service corps and the Yorkshire reg , amongst the family members one grave that is of particular interest to my self is that of Gladys Vera Cross who died age 8 on Jan 7th 1920 she was my Grandmothers sister ,she was buried at Fort George because her Father was a Sergeant Major in the Scots Guards,
Fort George can be found on the Common Wealth War Graves Commission web site but there are only 25 records
Nigel
occupying a position above the harbour of St Peter Port Guernsey sits Fort George , now filled with houses built in the 1960s it was once filled with soldiers from many regiments , including not surprisingly the Guernsey Militia and the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry, this last regiment being formed in the second half of the great war when the States of Guernsey answered the call for men by introducing conscription , despite the fact that there had been no conscription prior to this there was no shortage of Guernsey men who had volonteered , my Grand Father Frederick weysom had lied about his age and joined the Guernsey service company aged 16 and had transferred to the Gordon Highlanders ,many others had been placed in the Irish regiments due to a shortage of men from there, within this British Army garrison can be found Fort George Military cemetery
this cemetery contains over 200 graves containing men from 16 army regiments ,two airmen , one royal marine , family members from the garrison and one hundred and eleven men from the occupying German forces of world war two.
the regiments included are, the Queens own Royal west Kent reg the Royal Irish reg the Royal Engineers the Royal Defence corps the Prince of Wales North Staffordshire reg the middlesex reg the Grenadier Guards the Wiltshire reg the North Yorkshire reg the Manchester reg the Lincolnshire reg the Royal Artillery the Army Service corps and the Yorkshire reg , amongst the family members one grave that is of particular interest to my self is that of Gladys Vera Cross who died age 8 on Jan 7th 1920 she was my Grandmothers sister ,she was buried at Fort George because her Father was a Sergeant Major in the Scots Guards,
Fort George can be found on the Common Wealth War Graves Commission web site but there are only 25 records
Nigel