Heworth St. Mary
Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-George Lumsden was born 1887 at Heworth, Gateshead, County Durham, the eldest of 11 children, 5 sons and 6 daughters. His father James Lumsden, born 1865, married in the district of Durham in 1886, Elizabeth Jane McCullock born 1867, both natives of Felling Shore. Living at Heworth Lanes in 1901, aged 16 years, George worked at the stone quarry along with his father who was a cartman. Ten years later his father was working as a labourer at the colliery, George as a labourer for an engineer, brother Edward as a cartman for the North Eastern Railway livery division.
On the outbreak of war George enlisted and was assigned as Private 37095 to the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion Durham Light Infantry based at their depot at Fenham, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, a training battalion for active service and for soldiers recovering from illness or wounds received on the Western Front.
His service record no longer exists it is therefore impossible to know his exact movements during WW1 or indeed the circumstances resulting in his demise.
Private 37095 George Lumsden Durham Light Infantry was pensioned out of the Army under King’s Regulations 392(xvi), “no longer fit for active service,” he died at Heworth, March 22nd 1920 and interred at Heworth St. Mary Churchyard, SW part. Awards British War Medal, Victory Medal and possibly the 1914-15 Star if he served in a theatre of war during that period. He was 33 years old marital status unknown.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
George Lumsden is remembered at Heworth on H92.03
