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  • DRING
  • G
  • GEORGE
  • Byers Green Junction, Ferryhill
  • County Durham
  • Ferryhill Station
  • Son of George Dring and Sarah Ord, of 13, Trafalgar St., Ferryhill, Co. Durham.
    Two brothers, Edward (1900) and John Robert (1911); two sisters, Annie (1901) and Lilian (1920).
  • Coal miner at Mainsforth Colliery Ferryhill.

Military service

  • 28 November 1914
  • 17691
  • Corporal
  • M M, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 9th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
  • 69th Brigade
  • 23rd Division
  • B.E.F.
  • to France on 26 August 1915;
    Military Medal was awarded during the battle of the Somme during attack on the village of Contalmaison 10 July 1916

Death

  • 7 th June 1917 Battle Wood near Hill 60
  • Shot in hip and whilst on stretcher shot in stomach by sniper
  • 8 June 1917
  • 21
  • XIII - C - 9A

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