BORN AND LIVED SIGGLESTHORNE. SON OF FREDERICK AND MARY ANN TURNER, OF LITTLE BURTON, BRANDESBURTON, HULL. HE RESIDED AT CATFOSS, SIGGLESTHORNE.
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 20514, 2ND YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/07/1916, AGED 32. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, FREDERICK.
BURIED AT BERNAFAY WOOD BRITISH CEMETERY, MONTAUBAN, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “A LOVING SON, TRUE AND KIND A BEAUTIFUL MEMORY LEFT BEHIND”
First name:
GEORGE ROBERT
Military Number:
20514
Rank:
Private
Date Died
08/07/1916
Place died:
Montauban, Somme, France
Age:
32
, SIGGLESTHORNE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK