Briggs, C.
C. BRIGGS
George Michael Richard Briggs (wrong initial)
5041 Private, 10th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
037910 Private, Army Ordnance Corps
Born around 20th July 1889 at Gainsborough
Son of Thomas and Lucy Bateman (nee Carr of Scotter)
Father died when George was less than a year old
Family then lived at High Street, Scotter in the home of Lucy’s grandmother Mary Carr
Baptised with sister Mary Dinah on 20th March 1891 at St. Peter's Church
May have ‘attended school’ at Gainsborough Union Workhouse on Lea Road with older brother
Thomas Albert
Became a foundry worker at Marshall Sons & Company
Lived at 33 Tower Street, Gainsborough
Enlisted in the town on 5th February 1916 when a bachelor
Described as Church of England, 5 feet 10 inches tall
Sailed from Folkestone to Boulogne on 5th July 1916
On 2nd January 1917 suffered a gun shot wound to inside his left leg which fractured the thigh
Taken to the 8th General Hospital at Rouen
A week later sailed back to the UK aboard the ‘Aberdonian’
Transferred to 6th Company, 5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
Hospitalised at Lady Stradbrookes, Wangford, then Melton and finally Ripon until 10th October 1917
Transferred to the Army Ordnance Corps at Woolwich on 20th December 1917
Posted to No. 18 Section of the A.O.C. at White City
Discharged at Ripon on 24th September 1919 with ‘a disability of less than 20 per cent’
Died in 1963 aged 74 in the Gainsborough registration district