Jean Longstaff has submitted the following:-
George William Jardine was born on 26th September 1890 to retired beer merchant Edward Amory Jardine and his second wife Jane (nee Richardson), his older brother named after his father was born in Whitley in 1885 and his sister Ethel Isabella two years later. At the time of his birth the family were living in Aldersyde, Marine Avenue, Monkseaton, and younger siblings Dora Adeline, Hilda Margery and Robert Stuart were also born there.
Arriving in Canada on 22nd April 1910, the ship’s manifest states that George was a draper and he was intending to travel to Moore Park, Manitoba to work as a farmer with his brother. The 1916 census of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta show that George and Edward were farming together in Brandon, Manitoba.
On 17th June 1916 George enlisted with the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Camp Hughes, Manitoba giving his parents then living in Leazes Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne as his next of kin and his occupation as farmer and he became Private 865679 with the 181st (Brandon) Battalion. Admitted to hospital with measles just before Christmas, George was fully recovered and able to sail with the battalion on SS Grampian arriving in Liverpool at the end of April and a posting to camp at East Sandling, Kent, where on arrival the 181st was absorbed into the 18th Reserve Battalion.
Posted to France with the 44th (Manitoba) Battalion as part of the 10th Infantry Brigade, 4th Canadian Division in mid June, George spent four weeks with the 4th Entrenching Battalion, a wire training and reinforcement unit, before joining the 44th at Chateau de la Haie on 2nd September. Taken ill with influenza on 18th October, Private Jardine did not leave hospital for two months, and did not rejoin his Battalion until 5th January 1918 at Avion.
Promoted to Lance Corporal in September, the following month he was wounded in the left thigh at Valenciennes and invalided to hospital in Stourbridge, followed by convalescence in Epsom. Discharged to duty early in December Lance Corporal Jardine was granted sick furlough and on his return was posted to the 13th Reserve Battalion at Seaford, Sussex. Attached to the Canadian Corps Camp at Ripon in February, he was appointed Corporal in April and Sergeant in May. Returning to Canada aboard the SS Northland at the end of June he was demobilised from the army in New Brunswick on 5th July 1919.
George returned to the farm in Brandon, where he and Edward were joined by their sister Dora in 1920. In February 1923 he returned to England on the SS Montcalm. The 1939 Register lists George and his mother living and working at White House Farm, Depwade, Norfolk, where Jane died in 1954. George returned to lived in Gosforth, Newcastle and died on the 28th June 1971.
George William Jardine is remembered in Whitley Bay on W84.30 page 11