L/CPL, GEORGE FREDERICK LANGTHORPE 10/1223. Born 18th August 1885, the fifth of seven children, to William Langthorpe (1855-1923) and Mary Ann Scott (1857-1944), of 630 Holderness Road, Hull. Son of an Insurance Agent. One of the original Pals, George was a Grocer before the war but enlisted on 29th March 1915 joining the fledgling battalion in their training at Hornsea, Ripon and Beverley throughout the summer of that year. He fought in Egypt before shipping for France in March 1916, where he survived the Somme campaign that took so many of his comrades. On leave the following spring he married Edith Taylor before heading back to France and Oppy Wood. Again luck was with him and he came through it when again the battalion was decimated and fewer and fewer of the original Pals remained. His luck ran out on 12th April 1918 somewhere near the ruins of the French village of Bethune. George Langthorpe was killed in action and his body was never recovered. His new wife and no graveside to mourn at, the sole memory of his ever having passed this way is a name engraved on the Ploegsteert Memorial. He was 32 years old. His army effects were left to his widow Edith, at 19 Westcott Street, Hull (War Pension address). They had no children.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, THOMAS ARTHUR LANGTHORP, 26745, 13TH EYR, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT FRESNOY, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 34.
