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Pte. George William Tavener
British Army 6th Btn. Somerset Light Infantry
from:Martock, Somerset
(d.22nd Aug 1916)
My Godfather is now 81 years of age and never knew his mother’s brother. He is my late mother’s cousin, so when my wife and I travelled through France with our daughter earlier this year, we said we would try and find out some information about George Tavener for him.
I did some research and found out that George had his name inscribed on the Thiepval Memorial. No family members had ever done any research about George, where he was fighting or where he had died. On the way to the Thiepval Memorial, we stopped by the roadside and picked a few wild poppies that were growing, as we hadn’t anything else to lay at the memorial when we got there. We searched all of the graves, hoping to find George, but he simply wasn’t one of the named graves. There was only one Somerset Light Infantry grave, which had no name, so we laid the poppies there. My Godfather was so grateful for what we had done and our daughter, who is 12, now has a better understanding of the sacrifice that was made.
