BORN HULME, MANCHESTER 1886. ENLISTED MANCHESTER. LEFT WIDOW & TWO CHILDREN AT 15 JOHNS TERRACE, DERBY STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD SERVED THREE YEARS WITH THE COLOURS AND EIGHT YEARS IN THE RESERVES, INCLUDING THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. FORMERLY EMPLOYED AT MR CHRISTIE’S STONE WORKS, SCULCOATES.
POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 15/08/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/10/1914, AGED 29. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO MARGARET BENNY AND SISTERS, FLORENCE, CHARLOTTE AND LILIAN.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 12TH DECEMBER 1914, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON THE 19TH DECEMBER 1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON LE TOURET MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
First name:
GEORGE
Regiment:
Military Number:
8883
Rank:
Private
Date Died
29/10/1914
Place died:
Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas de calais, France
Age:
29
15 JOHNS TERRACE, DERBY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
