GEORGE YOXALL 

George YOXALL
Rank: Corporal
Service Number:9485.
Regiment: 2nd Bn Cheshire Regiment
Killed In Action Sunday 7th February 1915
Age 26
FromMiddlewich.
County Memorial WinsfordMiddlewich
Commemorated\Buried Ypres Menin Gate Memorial
Grave\Panel Ref: Addenda Panel 59-60
CountryBelgium

George's Story.

Born

Baptism 3 July 1889 St Michael & All Angels, Middlewich, Cheshire, England

Father Thomas 25 Dec 1865, Newton, Middlewich, Cheshire, England ,   d. Abt Jan 1931, 7 Pepper Street, Middlewich, Cheshire, England   (Age 65 years) 

Mother Elizabeth WILKINSON,   b. 28 Nov 1864, Newton, Middlewich, Cheshire, England  d. Abt Sep 1926, 10 Booth Lane, Middlewich, Cheshire, England   (Age 61 years) 

1891 Census

5 April Wheelock St, Middlewich, Cheshire, England 

1901 Census

 21 Lower St, Middlewich, Cheshire, England 

Siblings

Emily Yoxall (1889-19158)

Jonas Yoxall (1893-1960)

Frances Mary Yoxall (1898 )

Hannah Yoxall (1901-1987)

 

2nd Battalion
August 1914 : in Jubbulpore, India. Returned to England, landing at Devonport on 24 December 1914.

George went on Leave and returned home for 10 days as he had been serving in India for two and a half years

He embarked for France on January 27 1915 and killed ten days later

On the Day

He was in France for only three weeks before he died and died on the same day as his grandmother Emily YOXALL 17 Kinderton Street, Middlewich, Cheshire, England

 

News of his death appeared in the Sandbach and Middlewich Advertiser of 26/02/15, only the third man associated with Middlewich to die. His father was a former coal merchant, and grandfather (William Yoxall) a large property owner in the district.

 

Researched and compiled by Simon Gildea