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Pte. George Brown Smith
British Army 6th Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers
(d.9th Apr 1917)
George Smith died age 36, he was born in Westoe in 1880. He enlisted and lived in Jarrow. He is buried in Bailleul Road West Cemetery. St. Laurent-Blangy and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow. He was also commemorated one time on a brass plaque with six others, which hung in the porch of St. John's Wesleyan Church St. John’s Terrace, Jarrow The plaque was engraved by Mr. M. Hamilton of Jarrow (aged 80 years) The church was demolished in 1964. (It is not known what happened to the brass plaque)
