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George Welburn was born in Beverley the 22 Feb 1883 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 3 Jun 1883, the son of Arthur Welburn, engine driver and Mary Elizabeth. The family lived at 26 St Andrew’s Street. By 1901 George was boarding with the Dixon family at Garton on the Wolds where he was an apprentice blacksmith. In 1911 he was back living with his parents and was employed as a tanner’s labourer.
The Medal Rolls show George served in the Yorks and Lancs Regiment regimental number 23874 and then Labour Corp, regimental number 210667. He was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
The Beverley Guardian of 9 Sep 1916 reports he had been wounded and that his brother Walter was also serving with the Army Observation Corp. The Yorks and Lancs Regiment was involved in many of the battles of the Somme and the Labour Corp supported the front-line troops. At some stage in late Aug or early Sep George was wounded.
George married Rose Stevenson, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, and in 1939 they were living in Newark, where George was employed as an overhead travelling crane driver, heavy furnace worker.
He died aged 75 in Newark.
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