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BEDLINGTON

Gair, G., Pte., 1917
In Warlencourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 5701 Private George Gair serving with 1st/7th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers who died 15/01/1917.

Carole Fife has provided the following:

George was born in Cramlington in 1895 to Robert Gair, a colliery labourer, and his wife Mary who died when George was 3. His father re-married to Jane Snaith in late 1901 when the family were living in Cramlington. George became a miner like his father, and in 1911 the family were living at 1, Howard Row, Netherton Colliery.

He is remembered in Nedderton on N52.01, in Bedlington in B15.26 and in the Battalion History


The CWGC entry for Private Gair

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