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George Wilfrid Tate was born the 15 Aug 1898, the son of George and Annie (nee Stamford) Tate, he was baptised on 10 Oct 1898 in Beverley Minster.
George Wilfrid was a member of the Territorial Force, in the 5th Yorkshire Territorials, Private 1618, when he enlisted in the 3rd Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment on 24 Mar 1914. He was a machinist and only 15 years and 6 months old. By Apr 1918 George Wilfrid was in France, acting as a stretcher bearer in Wimereux, when he suffered a gunshot wound to his left leg and was invalided back to England, where he spent several months recovering in Brighton, before resuming light duties. By the end of the war George was a Lance Corporal, he was awarded the British War and Victory Medals and the Territorial Force War Medal.
On 11 Apr 1924, George Wilfred married Elsie Violet Whittaker in Bridlington Priory Church, he was a Police Constable, a position he still held in 1939, serving in Beverley while Elsie was living in Bridlington on Midway Avenue. Their son Dennis Leonard W Tate was born on 2 Jun 1924. George died in Derby in 1986 aged 87.
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