BORN HULL 05/01/1893. ELDEST SON OF HERBERT & EMILY MARY ALTOFT. SON OF A MARINE ENGINEER. HE HAD ONE BROTHER, HAROLD AND ONE SISTER, MAUD ALTOFT. HE WORKED HIMSELF AT EARLES SHIP BUILDING YARD.
ENLISTED AS PRIVATE, 32911, IN THE RAMC, IN HULL, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. WAS COMMISSIONED INTO THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, IN APRIL 1917. RETURNED TO FRANCE, ON 24/06/1917. KILLED AT YPRES, ON 17/07/1917, AGED 24. HE WAS UNMARRIED. BURIED AT ZILLBEKE CEMETERY, YPRES. HIS CWGC GARVE LISTS HIM AS G.A. ALTOFT.
HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, HAROLD ALTOFT, 12TH EYR, HAD BEEN KILLED AT SERRE ON 13/11/1916, AGED 19.
THEY ARE RECORDED TOGETHER IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 3.
First name:
GEORGE HERBERT
Rank:
2nd Lieutenant
Date Died
17/07/1917
Place died:
Zillebeke Churchyard, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
24
