BORN GLOUCESTER 1877. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF EDWIN & EMMA TARLING ABOVE ADDRESS. SINGLE MAN, WORKED AS A LABOURER. LIVED WITH PARENTS. KILLED IN ACTION 13/11/1916. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE GEORGE WILLIAM TARLING 12/903. Born in Gloucester in 1877, George was the second of six children and eldest son of Edwin and Emma Tarling. The family moved north to Hull where they settled on Hedon Road. George found work as a general labourer. When war came he enlisted at City Hall despite being much older than the average recruit, and joined the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals. He served in Egypt before landing in France on March 8th 1916 and entering the trenches at Engelbelmer later that month. George William Tarling, like 138 other men from his battalion, was killed in action at Beaumont Hamel on the Somme on 13th November 1916. He is buried in Euston Road Cemetery; he was 39 years old.
Such was the bloodbath that day, that one of the rarely reported acts of “treachery” took place as night fell. British and German soldiers went out into no man’s land to help the wounded within clear sight of one another, yet not a shot was fired. Perhaps nations could learn a lesson from that.
Tarling, George William
First name:
GEORGE WILLIAM
Military Number:
12/903
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps, Somme, France
Age:
39
