BORN HULL 1884. HULL PAL. SON OF HENRY & EMILY (COATES) & BROTHERS WILL, FRANK & ALFRED ABOVE ADDRESS. HDM 8/6/16 & 24/5/17. WIFE JENNIE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. L/CPL GEORGE FREDERICK BURNHAM 12/216. Born in 1884, George was the second of six children and eldest son of Henry and Emily Burnham of Osborne Street, Hull. A Warehouseman by trade he married Jennie Bottomley in 1910 and the couple lived at 9 Kingston Terrace, Cumberland Street. They had three children- Alice, George and Emily- though the latter two were born after their father enlisted in September 1914. He joined the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals originally as a Private but was soon promoted to Lance Corporal. His rank was a temporary one. After going AWOL he was stripped of it and fined several days pay. Having been admitted to hospital for an abcess on his leg, George got into trouble again this time for ‘striking a soldier acting as sentinel in a Military Hospital’. He was awarded 28 days Field Punishment No.2. He must have proved his worth as a leader mind. He was again promoted to Lance Corporal when the Pals arrived in France from Egypt. It was as short-lived as his first time. George Frederick Burnham was killed in action on 26th May 1916 and buried in Sucrerie Military Cemetery; he was 32 years old.
