Ypres Reservoir Cemetery: P. Priano
Ypres Reservoir Cemetery: Pauline Priano
Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-
George Glanville, was the youngest of 4 known children, 3 sons and a daughter. His father Moses Granville born at St. Pinnock, Cornwall in 1843 married in 1866 at Liskeard (listed under surname Glanviel) to Fanny Palmer, native of Veryan, Cornwall born 1845. Their son John was born later that year at St. Pinnock as was Solomon in 1870 while they were living at East Taphouse where Moses was employed as an agricultural labourer. Between 1871 and 1873 the family migrated to the north east settling at Ryhope where Jane was born and later moved to Silksworth where George was born in 1881. Moses was now working as a coal miner and had been joined at the colliery by John (14), ten years later he had left home, Solomon was a clerk in a mercantile, George (9) was a scholar, Jane remained at home. Fanny Glanville nee Palmer died in the district of Sunderland, County Durham, in 1892 aged 47 years. By 1911 widower Moses Glanville (68) was retired, living in 3 rooms at 39, Smith Street, Ryhope, Sunderland, cared for by housekeeper/domestic Esther Jane McNeil, 47 years of age and single.
George Glanville had married in 1902 in the district of Sunderland to Ann Jane Adams, who gave birth to their daughter Jane in 1903. Unfortunately, Ann died in 1907 aged only 24 years. George remarried two years later to Jane Scott born 1890 at Tunstall, County Durham, all 3 were living in 2 rooms at 14, Cornelia Street, New Silksworth, near Sunderland, in 1911, George was employed at the colliery as a rolleyway-man below ground.
After the declaration of war, August 4th 1914, George enlisted at Seaham Harbour, date unknown, and was firstly assigned to the 16th Battalion Durham Light Infantry as Private 33023. When the Labour Corps was formed as of January 1917 many of the men in the fighting line were posted to these units in order to keep the vast network of men, machinery and munitions moving in the theatre of war. Private Glanville was transferred to the 110th Labour Corps with a change of service number to 65432 and where he rose to the rank of Lance Corporal.
George Glanville was wounded in the line of duty and succumbed to his wounds October 18th 1917, aged 36 years and is at rest within Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium, grave I. G. 78. He is commemorated under his original rank and service number as Private 33023 Durham Light Infantry.
His widow Janet as his sole beneficiary received all monies due to him and his awards of the British War Medal and Victory Medal. It is strange that only his parents are listed by the CWGC.
Janet Glanville remarried in 1918 to John E. Thompson in the district of Easington, County Durham.
George’s daughter Jane married in the district of Sunderland in 1925 to Alfred Shellard. Jane Shellard nee Glanville died aged 46 years in 1949, registered in Surrey.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
George Glanville is remembered at Silksworth on S111.02 and at Sunderland in S140.048 Part 11.
He is not remembered in the DLI Book of Remembrance.
