Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun.

At the census of 1901 George, age 6, was living at 37 Wharton St and had been born in Skelton.
Both his mother and father had come from Cambridge and the latter worked as an onsetter in the Ironstone mines.
He had 2 brothers, John, who at 13 was already labouring down the mine, Thomas age 2 and a sister Martha age 9.

Highland Light Infantry.

George's Battalion were part of the 51st Division, which, at the time of his death, took part in the First Battle of the Scarpe, 9th to 14th April 1917.
This was a phase in the Arras offensive, one of the most important campaigns in which the BEF was engaged, yet in comparison with the Somme of 1916 and Passchendaele of 1917, terribly neglected by historians.
The British Army launched a large-scale attack at Arras as part of a master plan by the new French Commander in Chief Robert Nivelle.
Although initially successful, it soon bogged down and became a terribly costly affair, as with most.
The British attack was against the formidable Hindenburg Line, to which the enemy had recently made a strategic withdrawal.
The battle can be considered to be composed of a number of phases: the Battle of Vimy and the First Battle of the Scarpe were the opening phases;
The Second and Third Battle of the Scarpe and the final Battle of Bullecourt and other actions against the Hindenburg Line concluded the fighting.