Tuesday, 4 October 2022

Barnsley Cemetery - George Law

 

Law family gravestone in Barnsley Cemetery


Links:

War Memorials Register listing

Lives of the First World War

Find A Grave

Photograph by Wayne Bywater taken on 1 May 2018

Grave Location and Inscription: 

H 1258

In Loving Memory of
Mary Ann
The Beloved Wife of
Thomas Edwin Law
of Pogmoor
Who died July 7th 1911
Aged 53 years
Also George, son of the above
Killed in Action Octr 26th 1917
Aged 22 years
"Thy Will Be Done."

Note:
Father Thomas Edwin Law is also buried here, he died in 1939 in Beckett Hospital aged 82. Not named on the gravestone. This suggests the date of the inscription was between 1917 and 1939 or Thomas would have been included.

George Law is remembered at Tyne Cot and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website


B&DWM BAR07/90

1 comment:

Amy Law said...

Thomas Edwin Law is my 3rd great-grandfather and Mary Ann Williamson is my 3rd great-grandmother