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George William Jameson enlisted with the East Yorkshire Regiment Army Reserve in Dec 1915, he was mobilised in Jun 1916 and was transferred to the Durham Light Infantry. On 28 Mar 1918 the 5th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry was ordered forward in support of the 20th Division in a position astride the Amiens/Roye Road, south of Demuin. The 151st Brigade troops attacked the advancing Germans and the 5th DLI launched an assault on the wood near to Villers, during the heavy fighting George was killed.
He was awarded the British War and Victory medals and is Remembered with Honour on the Pozieres Memorial.
Born in Beverley the 24 Jun 1879, George was one of nine children born to George William Jameson, an upholsterer, and his wife Jane, the daughter of Francis Barnett, Sexton of Beverley Minster. George was employed by the Beverley Gas Works as a clerk, but in Kelly’s Trade Directory of 1913 he is also listed as a grocer in Grovehill Road. He married Sarah Elizabeth Peck, the daughter of Charles Peck, waterman, in 1904 and they had four children. Muriel born 1905, Bernard born 1907 but who died aged two months, Marjorie born 1909 and George William Eric born 1911. Sarah did not remarry, she died in 1962, aged 83. In the 1939 Register she is listed as manager, grocers shop, their daughter Marjorie was an elementary school teacher, and their son George William Eric was a liaison officer for technical Aircraft Works. Their elder daughter Muriel married Thomas Raleigh Tanfield in 1930. Thomas enlisted in the Durham Light Infantry in Feb 1917 when he was only 17 years 10 months old but he was not posted to France until 30 Mar 1918 and he became a prisoner of war on 1 Apr 1918.
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