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George Stanley James Orrell

Private

Service No. 60395

Age 21

Died on 15 May 1917

Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of James and Maria W. Orrell, of Thompson St., Langley Mill, Notts.

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john weston

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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Henry Harrison

George, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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George Orrell died after being struck by a piece of shrapnell. When he had finished his education at Langley Mill Boys and Secondary SchoolÂ...

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George, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and later in the 1st Battalion of the Royal Lin...

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