BORN HULL 1874. SON OF JAMES AND MARY ANN PICKERING, OF NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED ANNIE ELIZABETH SMITH, AT HULL, IN 1897. THEY HAD FIVE CHILDREN, LIVING AT 1 DIBBS BUILDING, YORK STREET, HULL. A GENERAL LABOURER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/08/1916, AGED 42. BURIED IN IRELAND.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S, NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917).
First name:
GEORGE RICHARD
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/7751
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/08/1916
Place died:
Buttevant (St. John) Churchyard, Cork, Ireland
Age:
42
1 DIBBS BUILDING, YORK STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
