247413 Sgt. George Henry Yendole British Army 1st Btn. Somerset Light Infantry from:Mudford My great grandfather George Yendole ran away to the Boer War underage and his father came and took him back. At 17 he left home and saw service in a mounted company of 2nd. Battalion Somerset Light Infantry in South Africa. We know he was in Malta and China with them but did not go on to India. We think he transferred to 1st Battalion in 1914 and spent the whole of the first world war in France, retiring from the service in 1924 . We believe he was at the "bullring" at Etaples as an instructor at some stage. He was awarded an MSM in Junr 1919. My mother tells me he was just a normal sane level-headed person but I dread to think what he must have been through.
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