SKELTON - IN - CLEVELAND
IN HISTORY
"WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

Private GEORGE W BLUNDY.

3326, 4th Bn, Yorkshire Regiment.

who died on the 14th February 1916.


Railway Dugouts, Ypres, Belgium.

George is listed on Skelton War Memorial and Church Plaque.
The CWGC memorial does not give any address or family connection.
A list which appeared in Skelton Parish Magazine for 1914 gives George's address as Skelton Castle and presumably he must have worked there in some capacity.

The 4th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment were formed in August 1914 in Northallerton.
They became part of the 150th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division.
After landing at Boulogne on the 14th May 1915, the Division took part in most of the actions on the Western Front.
George was killed in action during the Second Battles of Ypres.

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