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Second Lieutenant George Herbert Farley

 

Farley

 

Second Lieutenant George Herbert Farley, 3rd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Formerly a Private in the North Irish Horse, Service No. 1731. Farley was the son of Mrs Ellie Farley of 16 Buckingham Road, Bicester, Oxon, and the late Thomas Farley. He enlisted in the North Irish Horse in September or October 1915 and embarked for France on 19 May 1916. He was commissioned into the 3rd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 29 May 1917. Farley was killed in action on 16 August 1917. He was aged 22. No known grave. Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panels 70-72.

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.