Wednesday 10 August 2016

George Donald Gray 1883 - 1917

George Donald Gray Barnsley Independent 5th December 1917
  with thanks to Barnsley Archives 
Born:
1883

Military Service:

Enlisted: October 1914
Regiment and Battalion:  York and Lancaster Regiment 2nd/4th Battalion
Service number and rank: Lieutenant 
Awards: The British War Medal and the Victory Medal

Death:  1917 age 34

Buried at: Achiet-Le-Grand Communal Cemetery Extension
Grave Reference: I.A.6

Information from Commonwealth War Graves Commission:

George Donald Gray was the son of James and Elizabeth Gray late of Barnsley
  
Remembered:
St Marys Church Barnsley Combined War Memorial
Family gravestone in St George's Churchyard, Barnsley
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Memorial, Wakefield 

Links & Notes:

Lives of the First World War
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

It was the practice of families to remember their loved ones who had been killed and/or interred in another country, on the family gravestone. 

Doncaster 1914-1918
FindaGrave - France
FindaGrave - Barnsley
Yorkshire Indexers


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