George was a keen rugby union player as a member of Hightown Club in Liverpool, [now Crosby St. Mary’s RUFC]. He enlisted in November 1939 and was commissioned the following year into the 7^th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) rising to the rank of Major by 1942; at which point the battalion was turned into an Anti-Aircraft Regiment of the RA. The Battery landed in Normandy in July 1944 and served across NW Europe until VE Day. George met his death in a vehicle accident at the age of 32 on Thursday 3^rd August 1944 and is one of two OWs to be buried in this cemetery at the Bayeux War Cemetery.

Husband of Constance Mary Williams of Great Meols, Hoylake, Cheshire: elder son of Jesse Williams & Victoria Evelyn Williams. He left a young daughter and a son, Leslie, born posthumously in 1944. His younger brother Ronnie [N.1929-33] was killed in Belgium in 1940.
 

A copy of George's story is available to download here.

Revised: November 2025