014 of 876  2759 Pte George Daniel Salmon C Company 1st/1st Bn Cambridgeshire Regiment Died 23rd March 1915 Age 19

Son of Henry and Louisa Salmon of 7 Worlds End, Wisbech

George had three brothers and two sisters May, Herbert, Robert, Charles and Edith

He worked in 1911 as a Apprentice

Pte Salmon left effects of £6 5s 1d to his mother Louisa Salmon

He died at 11th General Hospital Boulogne

Received British War and Victory Medals

Pte George Daniel Salmon is remembered with honour at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery

TRANSCRIPT FROM WISBECH ADVERTISER

 

WISBECH TERRITORIAL FIRST LOSS

 

PRIVATE SALMON DIES FROM WOUNDS

 

Mr H Salmon of 7 Worlds End Wisbech has now received an official intimation of the wounding of his son. Pte G D Salmon of the Cambridgeshire Territorial’s. There is also enclosed a letter from the Matron of No 11 General Hospital Boulogne, of which she states ‘your son wished me to write and tell you how he was getting on. He is still pretty bad, but I hope before long he will begin to improve. He does not; I think suffer a great deal of pain. Everything is being done for him that can be done and will do our best to get him better.

 

This morning the late notification has been received that Pte G D Salmon of the C Company Cambridgeshire Regiment, died on Monday as a result of wounds received in going up to the reserve trenches. The nature of his wounds was not reported, but it was understood that they were serious. He was in hospital in Boulogne-sur-mer. The greatest sympathy will be expressed with the mother and father in their loss, the first death recorded among the Wisbech Territorial’s.

Keith Wainwright