George entered the war in France on 1st May 1915. He, along with 1625 Pte Thomas Alexander Jamieson and 1696 Adam Thomson Milne, was killed by shell-fire at Black Hut, during the attacks on High Wood in the Battle of the Somme. The bodies of the three men were extricated from the spot where they had been buried by the shells with great difficulty and risk under fire, and were brought back on the night of the 24th, by Capt J S Stewart, the Medical Officer of the A.D.S. Their funeral took place the next day at the ground besides the communal cemetery of Mericourt. George was the son of Mrs Jane McCondach of 15 Chapel Street, Aberdeen. [Will SC70/8/327/84]