19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment
George Hussey was born in Lydbrook in 1883, son of Thomas Henry Hussey, a tinplate worker, (born 1853) and Eva (née Mercy) (1856-1927).
George Hussey, a tinplate worker, married Annetta Mary Davies at Lydbrook (Holy Jesus) Church on 4 March 1906. There were two sons of the marriage. At the time of the 1911 Census the family lived at the Baptist Chapel House, Lower Lydbrook.
Shortly before the outbreak of the Great War the family moved to Pengam, Monmouthshire and he enlisted at Bargoed, Monmouthshire.
George Hussey landed in France with 19th Battalion, The Welsh Regiment, a pioneer battalion, on 5 December 1915.
He was wounded in June 1917 whilst working on trenches and constructing dugouts at the Canal Bank, Ypres in readiness for the Third Battle of Ypres and was invalided back to the UK.
George Hussey died of his wounds aged 35 at the King George Hospital, Lambeth, London on 30 July 1917. .
His remains were returned to Lydbrook for burial in Lydbrook (Holy Jesus) Churchyard, where a standard CWGC headstone marks his grave.
Researched by Eric Nicholls 30 December 2019