SECOND LIEUT. A. L. GEORGE
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Born: Q4 1895 Bridgnorth RD Alan Lee George [GRO]

1901 census: b. Bridgnorth. Son of Arthur Lee George, Grocer & Wine Merchant, b. Montgomery and Edith Sara, b. Hilsea, Hants. 64 & 65 High Street, Bridgnorth.
1911 census: Still living with parents, now at Fernhill, Oldbury, Bridgnorth.

GEORGE, ALAN LEE
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Date of Death: 14/04/1918
Age: 23 (b. abt 1895)
Regiment/Service: Royal Warwickshire Regiment 15th Bn.
Grave Reference: Plot 1. Row A. Grave 8.
Cemetery: TANNAY BRITISH CEMETERY, THIENNES
Additional Information:
Son of Arthur Lee George and Edith S. George, of Fernhill, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Bachelor of Commerce, Birmingham University.

Historical Information
It was not until the German offensive of April 1918, by which Merville was overwhelmed and the German line brought past it along the Lys nearly as far as St. Venant, that Thiennes became a place of British burials. On the 10th of that month the first death occurred in the 13th Field Ambulance (belonging to the 5th Division) during its service at Tannay, and thenceforward until the first week in August 5th Division units carried out almost all the burials in Tannay British Cemetery. Row D of Plot II contains only men of the 1st East Surreys who died in May; Rows D and E of Plot IV only men of the 2nd K.O.S.B. who died on the 28th (or in one case the 30th) June; and Row G of Plot IV only men of the 14th Royal Warwicks who died on the 8th July. In Rows C, D and E of Plot V the 61st (South Midland) Division made the majority of the graves, in the middle weeks of August.
Thiennes saw fierce fighting once again in 1940 when it was at the southern end of the area occupied by the British Expeditionary Force during the withdrawal to Dunkirk.
The cemetery now contains 363 First World War burials and 18 from the Second World War.
The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.

Name:	Alan Lee George
Death Date:	14 Apr 1918
Rank:	2/Lieutenant (T)
Regiment:	Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion:	15th Battalion
Type of Casualty:	Died of wounds [UK Soldiers Died]

GEORGE Alan Lee of Fernhill Bridgnorth Shropshire second-
lieutenant Royal Warwickshire regiment died ,14 April
1918' in France Administration London 26 April to Arthur
Lee George grocer. Effects £124 13s. 6d. [Probate Calender]

BJ: 20 Apr 1918: Killed in action. Alan Lee George, only son of Mr & Mrs A Lee George of Bridgnorth. 
BJ: 4 May 1918. See also.
Possibly [Medal Card] GEORGE Alan L: 28 Lond R 8606 Pte 762615 Comm 1.8.17 R War R. [No medals noted. Why?]

15th (Service) transferred to 13th Brigade 5th Division 14 Jan 1916. Moved to Italy with the Division in 1917 but returned to France April 1918.