ORDINARY SEAMAN J/24052 GEORGE HENRY RIX, HMS CORNWALLIS ROYAL NAVY. KILLED IN ACTION 25th APRIL 1915 AGED



George Henry Rix was born on the 2nd July 1896 to Eliza Rix who lived at 39 Back Grove. He was baptised at Ilkleys Wesleyan Methodist Church a month later, records do not list the name of his father. Eliza and her son moved be with her family at Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire. It seems that George Rix may have been sent to a navy training ship called the Hamble of the south coast. The ship still exists and is known as HMS Gannet. We do know that George joined the Royal Navy on his 18th birthday in 1914 when his height was given as 5'2". On 25th April 1915 was aboard the battleship HMS Cornwallis off the coast of Turkey at Gallipoli. Now an Ordinary Seaman he was tasked with rowing ashore soldiers from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers when he has shot and killed. He is buried at V Beach Cemetery in Turkey. George is not mentioned on Ilkley War Memorial and is named on the memorial at Bourne

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