Born: March 1888 in Great Yarmouth.
The eldest child of George and Eliza Ayers (nee Holmes). Ayers is sometimes spelt Ayres. The family moved to Lowestoft before moving to Filby in 1892, when George was 4 years old. They lived on Yarmouth Road, now Main Road.
In the 1901 census George's father's occupation is given as a blacksmith.
In 1916 George married Mary Ann Cook in Barnstaple. In 1918 she was to marry Thomas Howard.
George joined the Royal Naval Reserve, service number 6377DA and served as a deckhand on H. M. Drifter "G. S. P."
He was drowned following a collision in the English Channel on 2nd February 1917 aged 29 years.
George is remembered at the school and on the memorial at All Saints Church as well as the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent.
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The information provided here is gathered from a number of sources and is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate. We cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy of all those source and we are aware that names by which individuals were known and those recorded in official records often varied. There are also gaps in the official record as some records were lost to enemy action during the Second World War and through the passage of time.
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