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The photograph of Private George Sutton in the Beverley Guardian shows him in a unifrom jacket worn for ceremonial dress in India, by infantry soldiers before 1914.
In 1908 George Sutton married Jane Ann Edmond at St John's Church, Beverley, he was a maltster. By 1911 George and Jane have two sons, Harold and George Ernest and the family are living at 4 Railway Cottages, Drax, Selby together with members of Jane’s family, George was working as a labourer for Railway Company.
George may have been an army reservist as on 8 Sep 1914, George was on his way to France on the 'Cawdor Castle' with the 1st East Yorkshire Regiment. The 1st East Yorkshire Regiment served throughout the war on the Western Front and Private 7779 George Sutton served with them. In Jun 1917 George’s name appears as Sergeant Sutton both in the London Gazette and the Hull Daily Mail when he was awarded the Military Medal.
George returned to the Selby area, the National Union of Railwaymen records show George aged 39 working as plate layer, as a Driffield Branch member. George’s War Medal card provides further information, when his 1914 Star, British, Victory and Military Medal were issued in Sep 1928, they were sent to was 2 Beswick Gatehouse, Lockington and George and Jane’s names appear on the 1929 electoral register at this address .
George and Jane had 8 children, and George died in 1957 aged 71.
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