Remembrance soldier
Lance Corporal George Joseph Fox
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
Died of wounds April 19, 1917
Aged 26
George worked for Espley Butchers in Wellington and sang in the choir at St Patrick’s Church before enlisting in the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry about June 1916.
According to the Wellington Journal he went to France in December 1916.
It is likely that he was wounded between April 9 and 13 and evacuated to a hospital near Etaples where he died of his wounds.
George’s photograph is reproduced courtesy of Janice Dunbar, a relative.
His full biography will be available to read in one of 12 limited edition books at Wellington Library or online at Shropshire Archives from November 11 onwards.
The Shropshire Star has teamed up with the Wellington Remembers 1914-1918 project to feature each day in the run up to Remembrance Sunday one of those who made the ultimate sacrifice and whose name is recorded on the town's lych gate war memorial at All Saints Parish Church. Volunteers have spent two years researching all 184 war dead named on the memorial.
