Cecil George Guinness

10/06/1984 — 19/10/1917
A brief biography

Ancestors


Christopher Richardson — 1734 —
William Richardson 1738 — 1799
Christopher Rowland Richardson 1785 — 1864
Catherine Marian Richardson 1819 — 1891
Francis ( Frank) Hart Vicesimus Guinness 1819 — 1891
Cecil George Guinness 1984 — 1917
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Cecil George Guinness


Son of Frank Hart Guinness and Jessie Barbara Bannatyne. .

Born in 1984, the thirty-second year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, and died aged sixty-six in the seventh year of the reign of King George V

Biography


Cecil George Guinness was born on 10 June 1894 in Dunedin, Otago, his father, Frank Hart Guinness, was 43 and his mother, Jessie Barbara Bannatyne, was 37.

He had three brothers and three sisters.


BIRTH. Guinness. —On the 1Oth June, at the Douglas Hotel, Octagon, Dunedin, the wife of F. H. Guinness, of a son.

His father passed away in 1895. His mother remarried and the family moved to Tauranga in the North Island. Cecil was active in the Tauranga Volunteer Fire Brigade.

When the 1st World War broke out he was working as a Warehouseman. He enlisted and served as a Corporal with the 12th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Battalion, A Company, New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

Service Number: 11463
First Name: Cecil George
Surname: Guinness
Rank: Private
Date of Birth: Not known
Place of Birth: Dunedin, New Zealand
Next of Kin: Mrs Green (mother), Tauranga, New Zealand
Occupation: Warehouseman
Nationality of Force: New Zealand
Force: Army
Unit: NZEF, Auckland Regiment, 3 Battalion
He was Killed in Action on 19 October 1917. He was just 23 years of age.

Memorial
Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. N.Z. Apse, Panel 1

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Cecil George Guinness worked as a warehouseman for Guinness Brothers at No. 1 The Strand in Tauranga. During World War I he was killed in action at Ypres in Belgium on 19 October 1917. Story by Debbie McCauley.

Cecil George Guinness was born in Dunedin on 20 June 1894. He was the son of Frank Hart and Jessie Barbara Guinness (nee Bannatyne) who married in New Zealand in 1877 (reg. 1877/660). His father died at the Douglas Hotel in Dunedin on 1 April 1895, a couple of months before Cecil's first birthday. Jessie remarried to John George Green (1856-1944) in 1897 (reg. 1897/1375).

In March 1908 the family moved to Wharf Street in Tauranga. Cecil's brothers John Arthur Daniel Guinness (1883-1962) and Sidney Oswald Guinness (1885-1969) purchased the Tauranga business belonging to Messrs Mann and Company. Tauranga's Guinness Brothers opened for business at No. 1 The Strand in 1908.

Cecil was employed as a warehouseman for Guinness Brothers.

Cecil was a volunteer fireman, hockey player, footballer and Kings College Old Boy.

He signed up to serve during World War I on 12 January 1916, becoming a Corporal with the Auckland Infantry Battalion.

Cecil was killed in action at Ypres in Belgium on 19 October 1917. He was aged 23. Cecil is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


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