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Surname: VENN
Forename(s): George Henry
Place of Birth: Langcliffe, Yorkshire
Service No: P/1755
Rank: A/L/Corporal
Regiment / Corps / Service: Military Police Corps (Foot Branch)
Battalion / Unit: Military Foot Police
Division: ---
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1915-10-28
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 200 or 330.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: LANGCLIFFE, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
George Henry Venn was the son of Walter Samuel Turner and Margaret Ann Venn, née Heard. Walter was born at Longhope, Gloucestershire and Margaret at New Barracks, Fermoy, Co. Cork.
1891 Langcliffe, Yorkshire Census: Ribble Bank - George H. Venn, aged 1 year, born Langcliffe, son of Walter S.T. and Margaret A. Venn.
1901 Langcliffe, Yorkshire Census: Willy Wood - George H. Venn, aged 11 year, born Langcliffe, son of Walter S.T. and Margaret A. Venn.
George was married to Maggie Grisedale in 1909.
1911 Langcliffe, Yorkshire Census: Ribble Bank - George Henry Venn, aged 21 years, born Langcliffe, husband of Maggie Venn.
The British Army Service Record for L/Cpl George Henry Venn, 590, 6th Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: [Not identified.]
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: L/Cpl G.H. Venn, P.1755, Military Foot Police. Date of Disembarkation: 7.10.15 (2a). Remarks: Drowned 28.10.15.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: L/Cpl George Henry Venn, P/1755, M.F.P. Date and Place of Death: 28.10.15. Between Mudros and Helles. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Maggie. £7 11s. 0d.
HMS 'Hythe', the ship taking troops to Gallipoli, was in a collision with HMS 'Sarnia' in the Aegean Sea off Cape Helles and sank. About 165 lives, including George and his fellow Clitheroe P.C., L/Cpl Thomas Pollitt (P/1756), were lost.
George is commemorated on Clitheroe War Memorial and St Michael and St John the Evangelist R.C. Church War Memorial, Clitheroe.
Photograph courtesy of Derrick J. Venn, Australia.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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A/L/Corporal George Henry VENN
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Military Police Corps (Foot Branch)
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Acting Lance-Corporal George Henry Venn
Courtesy of Derrick J. Venn, Australia
'Clitheroe Times’ (12 November 1915)
Acting Lance-Corporal George Henry Venn
Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman of Clitheroe and Dorothy Falshaw of Gisburn
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26 November 1915
SETTLE MAN DROWNED – ‘Right Soldier Bred’
The sad news has been received of the death of P.C. Venn, a popular member of the Clitheroe Police Force, who was a native of Settle, where he formerly worked as quarryman. In company with P.C. Pollitt, also of Clitheroe, the deceased was on his way to the Near East when their vessel, on October 28th last, collided with another boat. P.C. Venn and his companion joined the Military Police on June 22nd last, and for some time were stationed at Aldershot. They were quickly promoted to the rank of Corporal. Pollitt had been in Clitheroe 8½ years, and Venn 3½ years, and they were both very popular members of the Force. Venn was a married man, and leaves a widow and two children, for whom every sympathy is felt.
Corporal Venn was formerly a member of the West Riding Regiment and represented his company on several occasions in the firing for the regimental cup. He was also one of those who went to Windsor to receive the regimental colours from King Edward VII. The deceased was, as they say in Yorkshire, “right soldier bred.” His father was No.1889 Corpl. W. Venn, 42nd Highlanders Black Watch; his mother was born in Fermoy Barracks on March 20th, 1862, and was the daughter of Jacob and Bridget Herd, of the Second 14th Regiment; his grandfather was a Crimean veteran; and his great-grandfather fought under Wellington in what was then known as the Waggon Train in Spain.
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George Venn was my great-grandfather, it’s funny because his son’s name was John Jackson they came to Canada, Ontario, during WW2 to escape the Germans.
That is my great x2 uncle.