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Pte. George Ernest Musgrove
British Army 14th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.4th Jul 1916)
George Ernest Musgrove enlisted at Newcastle and served with the 14th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. He died of wounds aged 19 on the 4th July 1916 and is buried at Daors Communal Cemetery.
His medal card records the award of the War and Victory Medals and that he died from wounds.
George was born in Jarrow 1897, son of Lumley and Hannah Musgrove of 64 King John Terrace, Newcastle. In the 1911 census the family is living at that address with Lumley(39) a drapers assistant and Hannah(42) his wife of 20 years. They had 6 children with 4 surviving. James Lumley (20) an apprentice plumber, Ernest George(13)and Sarah Edith (10) at school, Lumley is age 4.