Harradine, George

George was born in Steeple Morden Cambridgeshire, the son of William and Elizabeth (nee Harradine) Harradine.

George was a Private in the Bedfordshire Regiment ‘C’ Company 7^th Battalion 54^th Brigade 18^th Division, regimental number 29765. He enlisted in June 1916 and was posted to France in September of that year. He died of his wounds after receiving a serious gunshot to his shoulder, believed to be in the area of Cachy. He fought in the Western European Theatre of War, France and Flanders.

He is buried in the Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme, France and commemorated on the Odsey War Memorial.

George was awarded the Victory Medal and the British War Medal.

At the time of enlisting lived at Mill Cottages, Odsey with his wife Rosetta (nee Flack) (widow of Frank Jarvis) with his two step-children and four children, Ernest George, William John, Mildred Evelyn and Beatrice Norah. Before he enlisted George was a farm labourer.

Rosetta Flack was born in Chrishall, Essex and was the widow of Frank Jarvis when she married George in 1907. Her son Leonard Frank Jarvis, a porter at the Ashwell Station, also served in the War and was awarded a certificate for gallant conduct and devotion to duty in the battle of Messines in June 1917.