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Private George Botham joined the Territorial Army in 1911. He served in the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, The Green Howards. George was wounded in Jun 1915 and was treated by the 2nd Northern Field Ambulance and was sent back to the UK on 3 May 1916 and formally discharged on 10 May 1916 in order to do “work of national importance”. In George’s case it was a return to the Beverley shipyard where he worked as a plater’s labourer and later as a warehouseman. He re-enlisted in the TA, in the 5th, in 1920 and served until 1921. He was awarded the 1914-15 Star and the War and Victory Medals.
George was born in Woodmansey on 10 Aug 1893, the son of George Botham and Agnes Annie (nee Biglin). Upon the death in 1906 of his mother, he was brought up by his stepfather Harry Clark, a fish merchant. The family lived at 3 School Lane. George became an assistant in the fish business after he left school. George married Agnes Braithwaite at Beverley Minster on 20 Sep 1917, Agnes was born in Hull in 1895, she was a milliner living in Butcher Row. They had four children Joyce born 1918, Jack born 1920, Rita born 1926 and Wendy born 1927. The 1939 Register shows the family living in Pighill Lane. George was by this time involved in the family fishmongers. George died in Beverley in Sep 1971, Agnes died in 1981.
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