Every Name a Story
In Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, is the Commonwealth War Grave of 15757 Private George Tate, serving with the 10th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, who died 28/05/1917.
The son of John and Margaret Tate, of Bebside Colliery, Northumberland.
Morpeth Herald 08/06/1917 carries a brief obituary:
News has been received that Pte. George Tate, son of Mr John Tate, of Bebside, has been killed. [Pte.] Tate was in company with some Bebside lads who had just been reading a letter from Councillor Summers of Bebside when he said he was going to get something to eat. The poor lad was then struck by a shell and instantly killed.
George Tate is remembered at Bebside on B14.02