Carole Fife has provided the following:
George was born in Bedlington in 1890, the third child of George and Mary Chilton. The family lived in South Row, Bedlington Station, for many years because his father was a miner, but the 1911 census shows that George himself was a grocer. Unlike most men in the town he did not enlist locally. Instead he went to Dunkeld in Perthshire and enlisted in 2nd Field Ambulance Company attached to the Scottish Horse on 17th May 1915. On 19th March 1917 he was posted to the R.A.M.C. and was sent in June 1917 to East Africa. He arrived in Dar-es-Salaam on 18th June 1917 and was posted to 19th Stationary Hospital along the coast at Kilwa. He suffered from frequent illness during his time there and died in Kilwa Hospital from influenza and bronchial pneumonia on 13 December 1918. Both his parents died late in 1918, presumably of the 'Spanish 'flu' which was rife in Bedlington.
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04
