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Surname: GELLING
Forename(s): George
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire
Service No: 13560
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 10th (Service) Battalion
Division: 23rd Division
Age: 37
Date of Death: 1917-01-24
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: VII. F. 14.
CWGC Cemetery: RAILWAY DUGOUTS BURIAL GROUND (TRANSPORT FARM)
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
George Gelling was the natural son of Charles Crossley and Hannah Gelling. Charles was born at Kendal, Westmorland and Hannah at Liverpool, Lancashire.
1881 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 3a, Union Square - George Gelling, aged 1 year, son of Charles Crossley and Hannah Gelling.
1891 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 3, Union Square - George Gilling, aged 11 years, born Skipton, natural son of Charles Crossley and Ann Gilling.
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 21, Union Square - George Gelling, aged 21 years, born Skipton. [George and his sister Martha were boarding with Margaret E. Preston.]
George was married to Julia Jemima Fagan in 1911.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte George Gelling, 13560, W. Rid. R. Theatre of War first served in: (1) France. Date of entry therein: 26.8.15. Died 24.1.17. Address (Widow) 7, Cumberland Street, Skipton. 24.10.19.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
GELLING, Cpl. George, West Riding Regiment, aged 39, 17, Cumberland Street, [Skipton], killed in action France, Jan. 25, 1917.
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Private George GELLING
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 23rd Division
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09 February 1917
SKIPTON SOLDIER KILLED
Official information has been received from the Record Office that Corporal George Gelling, husband of Mrs. Gelling, of 17, Cumberland Street, Skipton, and son of Mrs. Charles Gelling, of Union Square, Skipton, was killed in action in France on January 25th. Corporal Gelling, enlisted in the West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s) in September, 1914, and went out to France some time in 1915. He had taken part in a good deal of heavy fighting, and only two or three months ago he was out on sentry duty when he was blown back into the trench by a shell, but escaped injury. He had fought against the Prussian Guard, who during the engagement had terrible losses inflicted upon them. He was a keen athlete, and formerly played rugby football with the Keighley, Worth Village, Manningham, and the Keighley Northern Union Clubs. He was 39 years of age, and was prior to the war employed at the Skipton Gas Works as a stoker.
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09 February 1917
SKIPTON SOLDIER KILLED
Official information has been received from the Record Office that Corporal George Gelling, husband of Mrs. Gelling, of 17, Cumberland Street, Skipton, and son of Mrs. Charles Gelling, of Union Square, Skipton, was killed in action in France on January 25th. Corporal Gelling, enlisted in the West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellington’s) in September, 1914, and went out to France some time in 1915. He had taken part in a good deal of heavy fighting, and only two or three months ago he was out on sentry duty when he was blown back into the trench by a shell, but escaped injury. He had fought against the Prussian Guard, who during the engagement had terrible losses inflicted upon them. He was a keen athlete, and formerly played rugby football with the Keighley, Worth Village, Manningham, and the Keighley Northern Union Clubs. He was 39 years of age, and was prior to the war employed at the Skipton Gas Works as a stoker.
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