BERLENCOURT (LE CAUROY) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Serjeant George Edward Gleadow
10th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment executed for desertion 06/04/1917 43359 Serjeant George E. Gleadow, son of Mrs. Rebecca Gleadow, of 22, Ladysmith Road, Grimsby, Lincs.
The Sergeant went missing in October 1916 when his unit was operating on the Somme. For 2 months thereafter, he masqueraded as a senior NCO or officer, & fraudulently cashed several cheques. When arrested in Amiens in January 1917, he was found to be wearing the ribbons of the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Conduct Medal & the Military Medal. At trial, he claimed that when on leave he had been wounded in the head & taken to a French hospital, but was unable to support his account with details & witnesses — & 2 doctors found against him as to the wound he claimed. |
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