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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Able Sea. George Theodore Snelling
Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Hood Btn.
from:9 Hopkin St., Weston-super-Mare
(d.13th Apr 1918)
George Snelling was killed in action during Defence of the Ancre on the 13th of April 1918 and was buried in shell hole. His body was exhumed in 1920 and reburied in Lonsdale cemetery, Aveluy & Authuille. A private memorial was placed on the spot he fell in 2010.Editor's Note:- His true date of death is most likely 11th-12th April 1918. The Hood Battalion War Diary has for 11th April 1918:- "Front and support lines were very heavily shelled during the day, one Lewis gun post being completely wiped out by hostile shell fire during the night. Casualties 6 Other Ranks killed, 7 Other Ranks wounded and 1 Other Rank missing (believed to be blown to pieces)." All seven of the Hood men listed as killed 11th-12th April in the War Diary are officially recorded as died 13th April 1918.
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