Regiment: Army Service Corps.
Died: 21 August 1918 aged 27 in France. Killed in action.
Battle: Hundred Days Allied Offensive. Cemetery: Longuenesse St Omer V D 85
Son of G. Riley, Oakfield, Walton-on-Thames. b. 1891.
Upper IV B— Lower Modern I. House XI Football.
Engineer.
Great War, Private A.S.C. 1914; Captain 1918.
'George Riley was a most cheery, good-natured boy, who won a host of friends. He played football with great vigour: in fact, there were no half measures in anything he took up. After leaving School he travelled in Africa for a year, and on returning home started his studies in engineering, in which profession he was engaged when war broke out. The same month he enlisted in the Mechanical Transport Section of the A.S.C., and soon rose to be senior Sergeant. He obtained his commission early in 1915, and shortly afterwards proceeded abroad. In January 1916 he was gazetted into the Regular Army and received his Captaincy. The following year he was mentioned in despatches. For a year before his death he acted as Adjutant, and it was while in his motor-car attending to his duties that a piece of shrapnel from a shell dropped fifty yards away struck him, causing the injuries from which he died.' (Malvernian, Nov 1918).