This name is listed on the memorial at St John's Church, Clapham Road, London SW9
Sapper, Royal Engineers, 54th Light Railway Operating Coy.
Service no. 229626
Killed in action on 17 November 1917, aged 31
CWGC: "Son of George and Elizabeth Weaver, of London; husband of Bessie Mary Weaver, of 91, Flaxman Rd., Camberwell, London."
Remembered at Talana Farm Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Information from British Service Records
45 Manor Street, Clapham
Born 25 November 1885
Attested age 30, 11 December 1915, at Battersea - went into Army Reserve
Posted 11 September 1916; embarked as BEF 23 February 1917
Working as machine hand
Service no 568777
(Cyclist) Batt Norfolk Regt
Next of kin: Maria Elizabeth (deleted - "Bessie Mary" inserted (to indicate his wife, Bessie Mary Cumming); address given as 15A Bridport Terrace, Clapham, amended to 45 Manor Street
Married at Christ Church, Clapham, 22 April 1916
Son: Frederick George Weaver, born 6 March 1917 in Lambeth
Regiment now given as RE and service no 229626 - transferred on 24 January 1917
W5080
Widow and son now at 91 Flaxman Road.
"No father" - presumably deceased.
Mother living at 15a Howard Street, Wandsworth Road
2 sisters (one married, one single)
Discipline
28 April 1917: Neglect of duty
Whilst in charge of engine no 505 allowing ashpan to remain full of hot ashes thereby causing destruction of fire bars. Lost 3 days pay.
Health
Initially (28 July 1916) fit only for home service "In garrison or provisional units"
8 January 1917: Admitted to hospital (VAD 80, Norfolk, North Walsham), suffering from malaria; discharged 15 January
15 September 1917: Admitted to hospital (discharged - date illegible)
Effects
Pocket book
scissors
jug purse
letters
photos
2 keys
Pension
Separation allowance - 16 shillings
Allotment of pay 14 shillings
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 George Herbert Weaver, then aged 22, was working as a railway engine fireman and living with his 56-year-old widowed mother, whose name is given as Maria E Weaver, at 15a Howard Street, Wandsworth Road, Clapham. His two sisters, Minnie E Weaver, 22, and Gladys E Weaver, 15, who both worked as dressmakers, also lived at the address, as well as a schoolboy boarder, Thomas H Penny, 11. The family shared three rooms.