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William Arthur George, Regt #720
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Donated by Dayle James
A Gallipoli Veteran Dies
| Corner Brook No. 720, William Arthur George, an ex-private of the Royal
Newfoundland Regiment, passed away 24 August 1965, at the age of 66. About six weeks ago he was called into St. John's by the Canadian War Pension Commission for his periodic medical check-up by the Senior Pensions Officer and it was disclosed that he required treatment at the D.V.A. Ward in the General Hospital at once. A war ailment led to a coronary condition of the heart from which he succumbed in spite of all that medical attention could do to save him. Comrade George was born at Harbor Grace and in his youth he trained as an electrician in the mining town of Bell Island. He enlisted in the Regiment at St. John's in February 1915. He contracted fever in the campaign against the Turks and was invalided out of the trenches. In time he rejoined the Regiment in France and was one of the sixty-eight members of the Regiment that answered the roll call immediately after the Beaumont-Hamel tragedy on the Somme, July 1, 1916. He went into action again later in 1916, but was so badly gassed, probably at Ypres in Sept., that he was invalided out of the Army and discharged as medically unfit for active service on June 11, 1917. In 1922, Comrade George came to Corner Brook to work as an electrician on the construction of the big paper mill. In time he was permanently engaged as a drive operator in the paper machine room. This position he held until retirement in 1953, due to ill health. After his sudden death at the General Hospital, his remains were taken to Corner Brook for interment in the Church of England cemetery and the family plot in Townsite. He was given full Legion honors. His pall bearers were all war veterans if the First World War, namely William Herdman, Neil Patrick, Jack Wells, who were past presidents of the GWVA; Fred Matthews, past secretary of the GWVA; Cyril Daniels of the Regiment, and Alex Kennedy, late of the Royal Navy. Left to mourn the passing of our comrade is his wife Marjorie; four daughters, Genevieve [Mrs Bernard Winsor, Corner Brook]; Tillie [Mrs Samuel Armstrong, Texas]; Maisie [Mrs Norman Percell, Florida]; Muriel [Mrs Ken Crane, Abilene, Kans]; three sons, William jr, Corner Brook; Edmund in British Columbia; Victor in Cambridge Bay, N.W.T.; 24 grandchildren, two brothers, Alfie and George, residing at Sydney and Bell Island respectively; one sister [Mrs Maisie Kitchen, Bell Island. Comrade George was one of the original members of the GWVA in Corner Brook. He will now be lamentably missed and gratefully cherished in our memory as the years that are left to the few that yet remain. |
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