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Major George Leslie WILLIAMS

318 Battery, 92 Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery
7 Nov 2025
Written by Jeremy Elsworth
1944
YORK [1927-1931] Head of House & School Prefect
YORK [1927-1931] Head of House & School Prefect

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 7th 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 3rd 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


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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