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Note: Usually known as George. Lived in Clerkenwell from 1890s and then Tottenham before First World War (1911 census at 39 Ipplepen Road, South Tottenham, N15 with Hanemans), where he returned in 1954. Used to swim in the Regent's Canal as a young man! Occupation pre First World War was carman/carter for LS Mitcham & Co. and Paterson & Co.: driver of (horse-drawn) vehicles for transporting goods. Carmen were often employed by railway companies for local deliveries and collections of goods and parcels. Modern day van driver. A Carter typically drove a light two wheeled carriage. Also sometimes someone who drove horse-drawn trams was called a Carman. 1915-1919 served in First World War as Private in the 20th Battalion Middlesex Regiment. Towards end of the war he was a batman (a soldier assigned to a commissioned officer as a personal servant. The official term used by the British Army in the First World War was Soldier-Servant). After war stayed in France and joined the Commonwealth War Graves Commission 10/10/1919 in grade of Pioneer. Worked as a gardener for the Empire War Graves Commission and married in France. Taken prisoner when the Germans invaded France in 1940 and held in POW camps at Huy near Li'ege, Belgium, then Ilag VIII-H at Kreuzberg in Nazi Germany (now Kluczbork in Poland), then in 1943 to Giromagny in France. Returned to Tottenham, England with his wife and youngest son in 1954. His mother re-married in 1897 and appears to have given him her new surname of OLIVER - appears in 1901 and 1911 censuses as George OLIVER and believed to have thought he was called this until he had to send to England for a birth certificate when he wanted to marry in France in 1920s.
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