Name

George McCready.

Description

Belfast Telegraph Newspaper Photograph of Private George McCready.

Life Story

Name: George McCready.

Service Number: L/6353.

Rank: Private.

Battalion: 2nd Battalion.

Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment.

Born: 8th August 1876, Belfast.

Died: 30th October 1914.

Address: 90 Glenwood Street, Belfast

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Volunteer George McCready, son of Matthew and Catherine McCready, lived with his wife at 90 Glenwood Street, Shankill Road, Belfast

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George had married Emily Stevenson McCready, Nee Chapman, within St Marys Church Belfast on the 8th of April 1911.

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George was a member of the West Belfast Ulster Volunteer Force.

He was also a member of the Orange Order, Verners L.O.L 859 and Royal Black Preceptory 456

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Prior to enlistment George occupation is given as Miner.

George joined the Royal Sussex Regiment on the 14th January 1901 in Belfast.

He was posted as part of the British Expeditionary Force to France on the 12th of September 1914.

George was a Private in 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment when he was Killed In Action on the 30th of October 1914 aged 39 years

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A local newspaper states

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BELFAST LOSSES AT THE FRONT.

U.V.F MEN KILLED.

Since the outbreak of the war a number of former members of the Ulster Volunteer Force have been killed in action.

Private George McCready and William Thompsett, reservists of the Royal Sussex Regiment, who were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, are the latest victim s of whom information has been received., having been killed in action at Ypres. Private McCready resided at 90 Glenwood Street, and was in the West Belfast Regiment, U.V.F., Verners L.O.L 859, and R.B.P 456. He was employed at Messrs Halls, Queens Road. By a sad coincidence his comrade, Private W G Selby, of the same regiment and the same firm, fell on the same day. Private Selby was a Sussex Regiment Reservist, and his widow and children live at 45 Sixth Street, Belfast. Private Thompsett was in the 2nd Battalion North Down Regiment, U.V.F. He was employed at the Queens Island, and his widow and family reside at Glen Road, Comber.

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George Soldiers Effects were left to his widow.

A Dependant Pension Application Form shows his widow as claimant also

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See Brother In-law also: 10171 Private Robert James Chapman 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

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George received the British War Medal, Victory Medal and 1914 Star

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He is Remembered at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

To Remember Is To Honour

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