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Pte. George William Bonner
British Army 1st/6th Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own)
from:Jarrow
(d.26th Apr 1918)
George William Bonner, Private 42710, enlisted in Jarrow and served with the
1st/6th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Own). He died age 31 on the 26th April 1918. He is commemorated on the Palmer Cenotaph (west face) Jarrow and on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow. He is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial.
George was born in Jarrow son of Elizabeth Bonner and the the late Robert Bonner. George William Bonner age 25 Labourer in Tube Works is living with his widowed mother Elizabeth Bonner at 78 Monkton Road back, Jarrow on the 1911 census.