George Neville MAY

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

1918

MAY George Neville of Thornton Hall Aysgarth Yorkshire captain R.G.A. died 29 May 1918 in France Administration London to Violet Castilla May widow. Effects £431 16s.

1962

MAY Violet Castilla of 5 Seymour Avenue Heysham Lancashire widow died 24 February 1962 Probate York 4 April to Barclays Bank Limited. Effects £2777 14s.

DE RUVIGNY'S ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-1918 – Part Four

MAY, GEORGE NEVILLE, Capt., 343rd Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, s. of Herbert May, of The Wilderness, Ramsdell, co. Hants, by his wife, Sarah Anne, dau. of Arthur Cobbett; b. Brighton, co. Sussex, 7 Sept. 1883; educ. Lancing College; volunteered for active service after the outbreak of the war in Aug. 1914, and was gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Garrison Artillery 19 Jan. 1915, being promoted Lieut. in Sept. 1917; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Feb. 1916, and died at Rouen 29 May, 1918, of wounds received in action near Doullens three days previously. Buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He had been in my battery nearly a year, and was one of the best officers whom it had been my pleasure to serve with, extremely capable and popular with both officers and men.” He m. at Leyburn, co. York, 7 Sept. 1910, Violet Cartilla [sic] (Thornton Hall, Aysgarth, co. York), yr. dau. of Frederick William White Matthew, of Low Hall, Sunnington [Sinnington], J.P., and had a dau., Pamela Cartilla [sic], b. 5 May, 1918.