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Sergeant George Robinson, aged 22, was killed in action at the start of the 2nd Battle of Passchendaele in Belgium on 28 Oct 1917. He served with the 5th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment, He has no known grave and is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing at Passchendaele Ridge near Ypres in Belgium.
George enlisted in Beverley in late 1915 or early 1916 and was rapidly promoted. In autumn 1917 he was home on leave having served at the front for over 12 months.
George was born the 28 Apr 1895 and worked as a whitening labourer and then a tanner's labourer, like his father, at Hodgson's Tannery before enlisting. His parents were William and Laura Annie Robinson (nee Abbot) living at 38 Keldgate. George had one sister, Avis Annie. George was unmarried.
The Beverley Guardian of 10 Nov 1917 carried a letter from George's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant F G Danby, written to his father.
"Perhaps it may comfort you a little to know that your son did not suffer at all, he was sitting in a shell hole with two comrades when a shell dropped right amongst them and killed the three of them instantly. I personally shall feel the loss a very great deal as he had been my platoon sergeant for some months now and I am sure no-one could wish for a better man. He carried out his duty to the end".
George is remembered on the Hengate War Memorial in Beverley, on the East Riding Memorial in Beverley Minster and on the Keldgate Street Shrine
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