No. 12089, 7^th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. Died on 13^th October 1915, probably during the Battle of Loos.

George is remembered at the Loos Memorial in France, and also on the Village Memorial in Gt. Bealings, Suffolk.
He was born in Great Bealings in 1891, the son of Herbert and Emily Martin of Great Bealings, Woodbridge, Suffolk.
In 1911 he lived at Stoneylands Cottage, Bealings, where he worked as a  Gardener.

George is mentioned in the 1915 Roll of Honour in Booths Almanac as being from Hasketon, and is also mentioned in the Woodbridge Reporter account of the Percy Wells Wait memorial service in Hasketon in July 1916. From this we can see he was clearly considered to be part of the Hasketon community at the time, but his actual Hasketon connection is unknown. We assume he moved here between 1911 and 1914.

Military service

George arrived in France on 30^th May 1915 and is therefore eligible for the 15 Star, British and Victory medals.   He was a member of ‘C’ Company, 7^th Battalion Suffolk Regiment.  The date of his death indicates he was probably killed during the Battle of Loos when the Battalion took part an attack on a feature of the German trenches known as ‘the hairpin’.