TOMBS, George

George Tombs lived at 15 Church Street, Stourbridge and enlisted in the Worcester Territorials, proceeding to France in the Spring of 1916. However, after injury and return to the front he was sent to the 2/8th Sherwood Foresters in the 59th Division. While fighting on the Somme front he was taken prisoner by the Germans on 7th April 1917. Private George Tombs was regarded as missing believed dead and this was eventually verified by an official German list of British dead in January 1918. His name was consequently commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. He is also commemorated on the Stourbridge and St. John's church Memorials.