{"id":1208,"date":"2021-01-02T11:05:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2021-03-24T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T15:27:03","slug":"george-charles-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tank-cambrai.com\/en\/george-charles-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"George Charles FOOT"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Lance Corporal George Charles Foot, 40342, DCM, of \u2018D\u2019 Battalion, Tank Corps, was only three months past his 20th birthday when he was killed on November 20th, 1917.<\/p>

Within days of his death, 2\/Lt Heap sent a hand-written note to his father. Heap said: “We all feel his loss very deeply, for his cheery spirits and unfailing good nature had endeared him to all…It is impossible that a soul like George’s should not go on living. I feel convinced I shall meet him again.”<\/p>

George had already been awarded a Distinguished Conduct Medal for his part in the battle of the Somme a year earlier, when tanks were deployed by the British for the first time.<\/p>

His DCM Citation in \u2018The London Gazette\u2019 number 29824 of Tuesday 14 November 1916 states \u201840342 Gnr. G.C.Foot, Mach. Gun Corps, \u2018For conspicuous gallantry in action. He displayed great courage and determination fighting with his Tank. Later, he remained for thirty hours with a wounded officer under heavy fire.”<\/p>

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George was born on September 3rd, 1897, at 153 Arlington Road, \nRegents Park, St.Pancras, in north London. His father, Charles Ernest \nFoot was born in St Pancras and married a girl from nearby Hoxton, \nCaroline Foot (formerly Todd). The wedding was in the second quarter of \n1897. <\/p>\n

At this stage, George\u2019s father was a commercial traveller, selling \nmusical instruments, and the family moved home frequently in north \nLondon. In 1901, when George was three, the family lived at 61 Etherley \nRoad in Tottenham; his brother Charles was born in Edmonton, and a third\n brother Ronald in Islington. <\/p>\n

At some stage, probably just before the outbreak of war, the family \nbought or rented a house called \u2018The Roses\u2019 at Great Missenden in \nBuckinghamshire, but also had a house in Anson Road in north London.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Documents in the City of Westminster archive indicate that by now, George\u2019s father Charles was commercial manager for Hawkes & Co, the musical instrument makers and music publishers, which later became part of Boosey & Hawkes.<\/p>

George must have travelled from the family home in Great Missenden<\/a> to enlist at Aylesbury; he served in the Welsh Regiment before transferring to the new Tank Corps.<\/p>

He now lies in grave III.B.5, at Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery. The CWGC register records Anson Road as his parents\u2019 home, but his name appears on a plaque in Great Missenden High Street, and on a war memorial beside the church of St Peter & St Paul.<\/p>

George\u2019s father Charles died in 1930. His brother Charles died at the age of three, in 1902. His youngest brother Ronald lived until 1979, and died at Whittington Hospital in Islington; Ronald was described as a musical instrument manufacturer. Ronald’s son – George’s nephew – still lives in north London.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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