George Ainges Gordon Cheyne

     George Ainges Gordon Cheyne was born, about 1888, in Crathie, Crathie and Braemer Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.¹

James Cheyne, Catharine Cheyne, Herbert Cheyne, Jessie E. Cheyne, Annie Cheyne, George Cheyne, Hellen Cheyne and Effie Gordon Cheyne were listed as children in the household of James Cheyne and his wife, Helen Cheyne on the 1891 Scotland Census, at 1 Balmoral Cottage, in Crathie, Crathie and Braemer Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland. He was listed as 3 years of age and born in Crathie.¹

George Cheyne was listed on the 1901 Scotland Census at Haughton, in Kemnay Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland. He was in the household of his uncle, Andrew Middleton, farmer. He was 13 years of age, born in Crathie Parish, Aberdeen and a scholar.²

George A. G. Cheyne was found on a passenger list, dated 27 October 1945, at Liverpool, Lancashire, England. He was a first class passenger aboard the Empress of Australia, out of Hong Kong. He was 58 and a marine engineer. His address while in England was c/o Ministry of Health, Liverpool. His last permanent residence was in Hong Kong and he did not intend to remain permanently.³

George Ainges Gordon Cheyne died 25 October 1947. He was the Chief Engineer Officer of the S.S. Tinley, registred in Hong Kong and of the British Merchant Navy. He was 61 years of age, the son of James and Helen Roger Cheyne; and husband of Mary Ann Sinclair Cheyne, of Aberdeen.⁴

George Ainges Gordon Cheyne was memorialized on Panel 5 at City of London Cemetery, Manor Park, in City of London, London, England. Many of the soldiers buried here died in Bethnal Green Military Hospital. The Screen Wall at the back of the War Graves Plot commemorates by name those buried in the plot or in graves elsewhere in the cemetery which could not be marked by headstones and those who were cremated in the City of London Crematorium.⁴