In Earsdon (St. Alban) Churchyard is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

8904 Private
G.F. Calvert
Duke of Wellington’s Regt.
24th August 1914

Until the day breaks
And the shadows flee away.

The Newcastle Daily Chronicle 27/08/1914 reports:-
SENTRY’S SUICIDE AT EARSDON
The circumstances under which Private Calvert, of the West Riding Regiment, met his death at Earsdon on August 24, were inquired into by a coroner’s jury at Earsdon, yesterday.

Sergeant Cunningham stated that the deceased went on sentry duty with five cartridges in the magazine of his rifle. Shortly afterwards a shot was heard, and on an investigation being made, Calvert was found lying wounded in an entrenchment, and one the cartridges in his rifle had been discharged.

Sergeant Gill, medical officer to the Regiment said a bullet had passed through Calvert’s head, the whole brain being destroyed. Witness did not think the wound could have been inflicted by a second person, or that deceased had shot himself accidentally.

Other evidence having been given to the effect that Calvert had been in a depressed mood, the jury found that he had committed suicide whilst of unsound mind.

George Frederick Calvert is not remembered on a local War Memorial.