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George F Hunt was born in Dunswell in 1883, the youngest child of Thomas and Emma Hunt. George had fifteen siblings, out of the sixteen children only six survived to 1911. It was in 1911 that George's sister, Sarah Esther, married Albert Charles Walker, of Weel. This marriage was important in tracking George down as it was a letter from him to his sister Sarah Walker of 2 Elloughton Villas, published on 5 Dec 1914 that finally identified him. In his letter George is in high spirits and jokingly tells his family that he has put on a little weight in the shape of one bullet. He was shot in the lung and was convalescing in Cambridge Hospital, but that didn't stop him from asking for 'fags' to be sent to him.
George joined the 1st Gloucester Regiment on 16 Feb 1903 and saw action in Bordon as part of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Division. In 1911 George was in Cambridge barracks, Portsmouth and a Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion, Gloucester Regiment. He was, presumably, wounded during the first Battle of Ypres which lasted from Oct to Nov 1914. He was discharged with a silver badge on 15 Feb 1916. George survived the war and was awarded the British War Medal, the Victory Medal and the 14 Star with clasp and roses. It is unclear what happened to George after the war, but his sister Sarah and Albert are buried together in St Mary's Beverley.
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