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Secibd Lieutenant George Alfred Kilsby
4th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment

Son of Mr George & Mrs Kilsby

Aged 19 years

Died 18th September 1918

Commemorated at Unicorn Cemetery, Vendhuile
Grave I. G.1


Rushden Echo, 27th September 1918, transcribed by Kay Collins

Killed—Mr and Mrs G W Kilsby, of Nene View, have received an official telegram that their eldest son, Second Lieutenant George Alfred Kilsby, Northants Regiment, aged 19, was killed on September 18th. He was formerly in the County Surveyor’s Office at Northampton, leaving on July 26th 1917, to enter the ‘Artists’ Rifles O.T.C. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant on June 25th this year, and went to France nine weeks ago.



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