George Albert Woodfield

Malpas Cemetery

George (Albert) Woodfield

Private No. 230789

4th Reserve Battalion King’s Shropshire Light Infantry (previously 1178 Cheshire Yeomanry) 

Died of illness returning from Western Front at Pembroke Dock 24 November 1918. Age 29.

Buried in Malpas Cemetery, West Plot 696.

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Born in Worthenbury, Flintshire in 1888.

Eldest son of the late John and Elizabeth Woodfield of Worthenbury, Flintshire.

The 1911 Census shows George living with his brother John at Barton Mere, Malpas and employed as a mill waggoner.

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George died of pneumonia at Pembroke Dock.

He was awarded service medals, so had seen active service on the Western Front.

We can only presume he was on his way back to the United Kingdom after the Armistice and fell ill.

Also commemorated on a plaque in St Marys Church, Coddington