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George Robinson Woodmancy was born in Tickton in Oct 1888, the son of John Wilson and Jane (nee Turner).
George had two different roles during the war; firstly as a driver in the Wagoners Special Reserve and then as a private in the infantry. He was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele on 26 Oct 1917 and is remembered on panels 102-04 on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
George joined the Special Reserve on 4 Jul 1914 at Driffield as Waggoner 1093, he was a farm worker in 1911 at Park House Farm, Leconfield. George was called up to Leeds ASC depot on 5 Aug 1914. He was allocated to the 6th Reserve Park and travelled to Portsmouth for preparation and transport to France, where he disembarked on 20 Aug 1914. The Wagoners joined various units of the Army Service Corps in one of 6 Reserve Parks. George was awarded the 1914 Star.
Shortages of soldiers in some infantry regiments and increasing mechanisation led to many of the Wagoners, becoming infantrymen in other regiments. George became a private in 2nd/4th Loyal North Lancashire Regiment and saw frontline action in Belgium. It was in a frontal attack on German lines in Passchendaele on 26 Oct 1917 that he was killed, initially listed as missing as recorded in the Beverley Guardian of 29 Dec 1917.
George's brothers, Wilson and Arthur also served in the Special Reserve, the latter in the Bridging Trains of the Royal Engineers, spending most of the war in Belgium, the former as a Driver in the ASC(BHTD).
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