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Private, then Lance Corpo George Wilding Mons Star

British Army 7th (Service) South Lancashire

from:Island House, Anderton, Cheshire

(d.22nd/23rd Nov 1916)

George Wilding was my brave great uncle, the only one of 5 brothers to be killed in action. He's buried at the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery on The Somme. I wish I knew more about the circumstances of his death but assume it related to the fighting around High Wood.

He had been made a lance corporal on 8 March 1916 and had been injured in the February of the same year, when he accidentally grabbed a bayonet, whilst trying to break a fall from a parapet. He was 22.



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