81482 Sapper George Middlemiss of the 202nd Field Company, Royal Engineers:

He entered the Theatre of War in France on the 10 November 1915 and was killed in action on the 23 May 1916, aged 36 years. He is buried in the Cerisy-Gailly Military Cemetery, France.

George Middlemiss is the son of Thomas Kerr Middlemiss and Isabella and he was born at Galashiels, Peebleshire, Scotland, in c.1880. He married Frances Bilton at St Thomas’s Church, Hyde, in January 1914 and the couple had one child, George, who was born at Denton on the 13 November 1914. He was resident with his wife and child on St Anne’s Road, on the corner with Hyde Road, Denton, employed as a stone mason at Trafford Park and then on Derby Street, Manchester.

 

It seems that Francis Bilton was the second wife of George Middlemiss, the first being Hannah Sophia Nelson who was born at Sutton, Hull, Yorkshire, in 1877. They were married at Govan, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the 31 March 1899 and in 1901 they were resident at Ford Place, Salford. They had one child, Neil, who was born at Salford Greengate on the 27 November 1901 and died on the 11 July 1902 at Kinning Park, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Peter Whitehead