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2nd Lt. George McPherson Borland
British Army 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Monkseaton
(d.14th Apr 1918)
George McPherson Borland served as a 2nd Lieutenant with the 3rd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. (att. 9th Battalion)
Born Scotland, he served as a Baptist Minister in Jarrow. On the 1911 census George McPherson Borland age 28 Baptist Minister is with his wife Ada Mary (nee Maddison) at Middleton in Teesdale. He was the son of Agnes and the late James Borland, his widowed mother and family are at 5 Wylam Street, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
George died at the age of 35 on 14th April 1918 and is remembered on the
Ploegsteert Memorial.