Private George Edward Ambrose
George was born at the ‘Brick Kiln’, Sutton, in 1898, the second son of
Alice Eliza and John Ambrose, a gamekeeper, who died between 1901
and 1911. Alice married again, to Abraham Bloomfield, (ten years younger
than herself), moved to Shottisham and went on to have at least one more
child. Abraham was a farm worker, and Alice listed no paid job for the
Census, although the family’s address was The Bake House (opposite the
Sorrel Horse).
George was only 15 when War broke out but he joined up and managed to
survive until just a couple of months before the Armistice. He was serving
with the Manchester Regiment when he died on the 8th September 1918.
near Bapaume
He is buried in plot II J 9, Bancourt British Cemetery, most of which
“was made after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the
battlefields east and south of Bancourt and from certain Allied and
German cemeteries… The great majority of these graves dated from
the winter of 1916-1917, the retreat of March 1918, or the advance of
August-September 1918.
Bancourt British Cemetery now contains 2,480 burials and
commemorations of the First World War. 1,462 of the burials are
unidentified.”
(Commonwealth War graves Commission website)