79 Main Street, Skidby. Lists the names of 42 men who served, including 6 died in WW1
BORN LITTLE WEIGHTON 1894. SON OF MRS ELLEN BERRIDGE, OF REFORM STREET, HULL, 253 HALLGATE, COTTINGHAM AND LATER SKIDBY, HULL.
HE LIVED ON HARLAND RISE FARM, COTTINGHAM.
HE ENLISTED IN THE 13TH EYR (HULL PALS). SERVED IN EGYPT & FRANCE. KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE BATTLE OF SERRE, THE SOMME, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 22. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL, SOMME, FRANCE.
GEORGE WAS REPORTED MISSING IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 5TH DECEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON REFORM STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, THE HULL GARDENER SOCIETY MEMORIAL, AT HULL MINSTER AND ON THE SKIDY WW1 MEMORIAL.
First name:
GEORGE BRUNNING
Regiment:
Military Number:
13/1018
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/11/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
22
