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George Henry Edmond was born in Beverley 21 May 1896 and baptised at Beverley Minster on 12 May 1900. He was one of twelve children born to John Bryan Edmond, a tanner’s labourer, and his wife Sarah, nee Fenwick. At the time of the Census on 2 Apr 1911, fourteen-year-old George was working as a horseman on a farm at Wawne.
Private George Henry Edmond enlisted in Hull in the 12th (Service) Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment on 14 Sep 1914. The 12th East Yorkshire Battalion was involved in much of the fierce fighting on the Western Front.
In Feb 1918, the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment was disbanded and the surviving soldiers were distributed to other Battalions of the East Yorkshire Regiment. Private Edmond was transferred to the 10th Battalion on 3 Feb 1918 and fought in the Battles of Bapaume and the Lys during the German Spring Offensive. He was subsequently transferred to the 1st Battalion (21st Division) on 20 Sep 1918 and remained with them during the final advance to victory in Picardy. George Henry Edmond was discharged to the Army Reserve in Feb 1919. He was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 1914-1915 Star.
George married Sarah Annie Bainton on 2 Aug 1919 at Lockington, they had three daughters Marjorie, Joyce and Olive May and two sons Donald Harold and David. In 1939 the family lived at 16 Lansdowne Street, Hull. Their daughter Joyce became engaged to an American soldier, Charles Henry Kindsvater, and in 1946 moved to Pennsylvania to marry him. Olive May Edmond married Leslie Essex in 1945. A terrible tragedy struck the Edmond family just before Easter 1951. Olive May Essex, her husband Leslie, and their one-year-old daughter Linda were on their way to a family wedding when the Hull to London train was in a collision with another train at Doncaster, in which fourteen people were killed and twelve were injured. George and Sarah's daughter, son-in-law and baby granddaughter were among the dead
George Henry Edmond died on 2 May 1956. He was aged fifty-nine years. His widow, Sarah Annie survived him by forty years and died at Huggate in May 1996, aged ninety-six
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