Born in 1891, George Thomas Chandler was the son of Florence Chandler and Thomas George Chandler, an engineer. In 1911, George and his family, including his younger brother and two younger sisters, were living at 20 Sandown Gardens in Goodmayes, Ilford. He attended Coopers Company School in Bow from 1904 to1906.
During the First World War, George Thomas Chandler served with the London Regiment. He was killed on 2nd October 1916, aged 25, on the second day of the attacks on the Butte de Warlencourt, during the Battle of the Somme.
George Chandler is buried in Warlencourt British Cemetery in France.
Some information / extracts have been reproduced with kind permission of Karen Pack from her book ‘Coopers’ Boys & Coborn Girls: Their Part in the Great War’ © Karen Pack, 2015
Sources:
Ancestry.com
ICHS school records and magazines
Commonwealth War Graves Commission