Carole Fife has provided the following:
George was born 30th November 1890 and was baptised at St. Aidan's, Benwell, Newcastle on 15th February 1891. His father, also George Jude, had married a widow named Frances McLean in 1889. When his father died in 1893 the children went to live with their McLean grandparents in Bedlington Station. George probably enlisted in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the hope of seeing the world, but the Navy had too many volunteers and George was sent to Drake Battalion of the newly formed Royal Naval Division. He joined early in the War and was probably sent to Gallipoli with RND; an item in the Blyth News reported him missing on 8th July 1915. The R.N.D. was sent to the Western Front after the evacuation from Gallipoli. Drake Battalion was involved in the final phase of the Battle of the Somme, advancing along the valley of the Ancre to capture Beaumont.
Colin Boyd has provided the following:
George was born on November 30th 1890 and was working as a miner living with his father, Frances at 77, South Row, Bedlington Colliery when he enlisted in the Royal Naval Division on October 10th 1914.
He joined the Benbow Battalion on February 22nd 1915, transferred to the Drake Battalion on June 12th 1915 and was hospitalised on June 24th 1915 with gun shot wounds to both thighs.
After rejoining the Drake Battalion on February 6th 1916 George was reported as missing later assumed killed in action on November 13th 1916.
George Jude is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04 and in Bedlington on B15.06
