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He signed up for the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment in June 1940 and went out to the Far East in Spring 1941. <br><br> | He signed up for the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment in June 1940 and went out to the Far East in Spring 1941. <br><br> | ||
He died in Burma and is remembered on the Rangoon Memorial in the Tukkyan War Cemetery, Yangon, Myanmar. | He died in Burma and is remembered on the Rangoon Memorial in the Tukkyan War Cemetery, Yangon, Myanmar. | ||
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CORPORAL GEORGE GREENWOOD
d 22nd February 1942 aged 28
George was born on 10th January 1914 at 21 Duke Street to Thomas, a former soldier, Motorman (Paper Mill) and then Steward at Midgley Working Men’s Club, who gave his life in Belgium in August that year, and Annie (nee Smyth, and born in Ireland) who, as a widow was later working as a screwer at Lindley’s. He was brought up at Goitside, Booth and Spring Bank.
In 1939 he was living with his mother in Wadsworth Street, Halifax and working as a pattern cutter and stock keeper at John Mackintosh and Son, Albion Mills, Halifax. He married Kathleen Alice Watson in February 1941 at St Michaels’ Mytholmoroyd and moved to Spring View, Luddendenfoot.They already had a child, Henry, born in 1938, who had been adopted by the Sellars family.
He signed up for the Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment in June 1940 and went out to the Far East in Spring 1941.
He died in Burma and is remembered on the Rangoon Memorial in the Tukkyan War Cemetery, Yangon, Myanmar.