George volunteered on 11th December 1915 and was sent to Army Reserve. He was 31 years and 11 months old; was a Postman by trade; and was living at 38 Moxon Street, High Barnett, Herts at the time. He was mobilized on 25th August 1916 to serve in the Hertfordshire Regiment, then entered the war in France on 16th May 1917. George was wounded with shrapnel in the neck on 31st July 1917, during the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele). After recuperation in hospital at Malvern he transferred to the R.A.M.C. on 31st December 1917 and was posted to Blackpool, where he remained as a medical orderly until the end of the war. He was demobilized on 10th March 1919. After the war he returned to his job as a postman in Barnet. He was the husband of Grace Maud Walker. [Information and photograph kindly provided by George’s family].