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Lance-Corporal George Seller served in the Royal Army Medical Corps. The Beverley Guardian of 1 Dec 1917 noted that George had been wounded. He survived the war and was awarded the War and Victory medals. He is listed on the Grovehill Road Street Shrine.
George was born in Beverley the 22 May 1894 the son of George Seller, born in Bishop Wilton and Caroline Haigh Seller of Beverley. George's father was a merchant seaman who in 1892 gained his certificate of competency to be a ship’s master and was thus regularly away from home. He died of an intestinal infection in Bahia, Brazil, whilst First Mate on the SS Trabboch on 2 Jun 1912. HIs mother was the daughter of a Beverley auctioneer, William Lane, of Ladygate. By 1912 the family home was 69 Grovehill Road, Beverley and George was working as a clerk for East Riding County Council.
After the war George returned to County Hall and in 1939 was the Chief Clerk in the Poor Law Department. In 1932 he married Dorothea Agnes Laister of Beverley. Born in 1897 she was the daughter of a draper’s assistant. Their son Christopher G, was born in 1937. The family home was 47 Grayburn Lane, Beverley. George died in Hull in 1975; Dorothea died in 1982.
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