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Private George Brusby, aged 36, was wounded in action at the Somme on 15 Sep 1916, he was in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment and on that day had been involved in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. George sustained a shrapnel wound to his right buttock and was invalided out of France to a military hospital in Chatham, Kent, then spent a further month in hospital at Faversham. The Beverley Guardian, 23 Sep1916 reported a letter to his mother stating, "….I am getting on all right. It is not a dangerous wound but it is bad enough. I shall be coming on leave soon, as I am in England now."
George enlisted in Nov 1914 and arrived in France in Nov 1915, after receiving his wounds he was posted to the Army Labour Corps at Strensall, York and in Mar 1918 joined the Royal Engineers as a Sapper, specifically as a bricklayer's mate in the 189th Company (Inland Waterways and Docks) spending the rest of the war in the Bristol and Chepstow areas. He left the army in Jan 1919. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
George was born on 20 Oct 1879, his father George died shortly after. His mother, Mary Emily Brusby (nee Binnington) married a widowed neighbour Edward Hardy of Grosvenor Place, Cartwright Lane, Beverley, a wood sawyer who had nine motherless children. he was to have a further seven children with Mary. In addition to his half brothers and sisters, George had a sister, Annie and a brother Charles. The large family later lived at 7 Minster Terrace, Minster Moorgate, with 40 Keldgate eventually becoming the family home. George worked as a bricklayer's labourer: his army enlistment papers say he worked for Charles and Frank Stephenson of 29 Minster Moorgate in Beverley. George resumed his earlier trade after the war and married Sarah J Scaife in 1924 in Beverley, they had a son, George, born 1927. They lived at 46 Keldgate and later in Holderness Crescent. George died in 1951
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