GEORGE FAIRBURN HART

RANK: Private.

SERVICE NUMBER: 15/317.

REGIMENT:"A" Coy 15th Bn west Yorkshire Regiment (Leeds Pals).

BORN: Burley Cum Headingley Leeds.

ENLISTED: Leeds.

GAVE HIS LIFE: 27/04/1916

AGED: 26.

CEMETERY: Beauval Communal Cemetery is on the main N25 about 24 kilometres north of Amiens and 6 kilometres south of Doullens France.

GRAVE: E. 5.

LEEDS MODERN: Unknown.

George was the only son of William Born Burgg Lincolnshire 1854 a textile patent agent and Florance Camburn Born Elham Kent 1855, they married in Elham in 1880.

After Leaving Leeds Boys Modern George attended Leeds University and on September 1914 at Leeds Town Hall enlisted into the 15 Bn West Yorkshire Regiment Leeds Pals.

After training in Colsterdale, Ripon and Salisbury, George was posted with the Battalion to Egypt and then France, where George gave his life.

The CWGC shows the following details.



"Son of William and Florence Fairburn-Hart (nee Camburn), of 6, Airedale Cliff, Pollard Lane, Newlay, Bramley, Leeds. Textile Designer."