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Rflmn George Augustus Floyd
British Army 9th (Queen Victorias Rifles) Battalion London Regiment
George Floyd volunteered for the QVR in 1914. He kept a diary and was good at drawing painting, he recorded his work with unit at hill 60 and other battles including the first day of the Somme as a bomber, he was first over the top, a shell exploded over head and blow a hole through his shoulder. He was unconscious when a medic came along gave him a pain killer of some sort and he was left there over night. He woke up and heard voices called out they turned out to be Germans who started shooting at him, it went quiet so he started clawing to the other end, it took a while to convince a post that he was British but they helped him back to the trench. He started walking with help got fed up with how long it was taking, so to much up set got on the top of the communication trench they gave him help back to hospital tent. Later he was sent back to England and then after recovering he came to train new recruits.
His diary was put into a book but only in limited edition as him cousin was a publisher, but Grandpa did not want it released in case it upset anyone. My mother did a family tree and noticed his best friends name in a mag and wrote to them they contacted my mother asking for more information about Frank Boggis he survived the day time of the Battle of the Somme and they got to there objective, only to be killed at 5pm, tea time that day. Mum gave them the location of his grave and they wrote to say thank you and later to say they had just returned from visiting their uncle's grave. Grandpa visited the grave on the ten year anniversary in 1926.
Many other stories but I hope hope this is a short record of his dairies which his cousin put on show at Cambridge university as he was a lecturer there in history.
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