A Poppy
A Poppy

Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
Links to
- CWGC Headstones -
- Belgium : Ypres area : White House Cemetery CWGC -
- George Henry Pryke -

Location

In White House Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
 
Description

Standard CWGC Headstone.
Grave location : IV. A. 41.
Headstone


 
Inscription

749 PRIVATE
G. PRYKE
P'CESS PATRICIA'S C.L.I.
25TH APRIL 1915 AGE 45

HE DIED
FOR RIGHT AND LIBERTY



Originally buried in the garden of the Convent of the Pauline Sisters, Poperinghe, and reburied [CEF Commonwealth War Graves Registers, 1914-1919, Ancestry.co.uk]
 
Further Information

George Henry Pryke

Son of Samuel Pryke and Caroline Pryke (née Wright)(died 1876) of Brading, Isle of Wight.

Born : 1867, Brading, Isle of Wight.

Census information

1871 Samuel and Caroline Pryke, with their children including George aged 4, are at High Street, Brading, Isle of Wight. Samuel Pryke is a Labourer.

1881 Samuel Pryke, widower, with George aged 14, are boarding at Albion Cottage, Ryde, Isle of Wight. Samuel Pryke is a Platelayer; George Pryke is a Waterman.

CWGC record ...
 
Veteran Affairs Canada record ...

Commemorated on the following Isle of Wight Memorial(s) :

Brading Town Hall Roll of Honour


 
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