George Bamford Hirst (1907-1967) [107876, Driver, Royal Army Service Corps]
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- born 26 May 1907 at Golcar (Q3 1907 Huddersfield née Bamford)
- son of Sam Hirst & Annie (née Bamford)
- married Agnes McNicholas in 1923
- George Alfred Hirst (b 9 March 1932)
- Mary Hirst (b 29 January 1939)
- died 9 February 1967 (lived at 242 Quarmby Road, Huddersfield)
- buried at Longwood Wesleyan Methodist Church
Records:
- 1911 Census (FindMyPast) – 114 West End Road, Golcar (father: stone mason)
- 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – 114 West End Road, Golcar (mason’s labourer)
- 1939 Register (FindMyPast) – 242 Quarmby Road, Huddersfield (motor bus driver)
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Articles:
- Huddersfield Examiner (31/Aug/1940) – News of Men in the Forces
- Huddersfield Examiner (28/Feb/1942) – A Prisoner’s Thanks
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Huddersfield Examiner (15/Jun/1946):
QUARMBY MOTOR-DRIVER FINED
George Bamford Hirst (45), motor-driver, of Quarmby Road, Quarmby, was fined 40s. with 16s. 7d. costs at Dewsbury West Riding Court yesterday for driving a motor-lorry in Stanard Lane, Mirfield, and failing to report an accident involving injury to another person within twenty-four hours.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (24/Aug/1991):
Rock carving revelations
Miscellany readers have helped to discover what happened to a World War Two prisoner from Huddersfield who carved his name on rocks in the remote Czechoslovakian countryside.
A couple from Cardiff wrote to the Examiner for help after seeing the name and address, G B Hirst, 242 Quarmby Road, Huddersfield, British PoW 3.9.43, carved on rocks in a remote forest in North-East Bohemia.
Calls to the office led to the prisoner’s 73-year-old brother, Douglas Hirst, who lives in Carr Lane, Slaithwaite.
He revealed the prisoner was his younger brother, George Bamford Hirst, who was serving with the Halifax-based Duke of Wellington’s Regt when he was captured in Belgium in the days before Dunkirk.
Said Douglas: “George was a PoW until 1945, but he never said a lot about it. But he did reveal that one of the most frightening moments was when he was liberated by Russian women!”
One of nine children, George followed his father’s footsteps and became a stonemason in the 1920s, but quit the building trade to become a truck driver for Hanson Transport in the 1930s.
After the war he returned to Hanson’s this time as a coach driver – and often drove Huddersfield Rugby League Club team.
He left Hanson’s to become a private chauffeur before his death in the late 1950s.
His two children, George and Mary, still live locally and he has a surviving sister, 80-year-old Jennie, of Scar Lane, Milnsbridge.
Douglas is his only surviving brother.
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