South Yorkshire Times, March 24th 1945
Gnr. George William Briggs
Mr. J. Briggs, 40, Swinton Road, Mexborough, has received news that his son, Gnr. George William Briggs (30) has been killed in action in Burma. Gnr. Briggs joined the Army in 1933.
Up to the outbreak of war he remained in this country and then went to France. When the evacuation at Dunkirk began, he was in Belgium, and obtaining a motor cycle escaped with a pal to the Dunkirk area, and was evacuated from there. He was wounded in France and stayed for a short time after the evacuation. He then was sent to India and Burma.
He leaves a wife and one child living at Sheffield
C.W.G.C.
Gnr. George William Briggs
Service Number 842016
178 Field Regiment Royal Artillery
Died February 15tth 1945
Aged 36 years
Buried or commemorated at Taukkyan War Cemetery 27.C.17 Myanmar
Husband of Ivy Briggs of Sheffield
Personal Inscription:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them