On the Arras Memorial, France is the name of 12300 Private George Grey, serving with the 10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars, who died 11/04/1917.

Colin McMillan has provided the following:

George Grey was born in or about 1896. At the time of the 1901 census when he was aged 5 he was the sixth child of William Anson Grey, a 41 year old Canada born grocer and provision merchant, and 36 year old Ann Margaret Grey who was born in Blagdon. George’s siblings were William Grey jnr (16) an apprentice grocer and provision merchant, Hilda Grey (15), Thomas Grey (13), Joseph Grey (9), Robert Grey (7), Florence Grey (3) and Anson Grey (1). All of the children were born in Morpeth and in 1901 were living at River View, Morpeth.

By 1911 William junior was no longer there and had presumably moved on. All the other children still lived with their parents and had been joined by a ninth child, Violet Margaret Grey who was 5.  George was now 16 and worked as a cycle repairer. The family had moved to 7 Buller’s Green, Morpeth.

George enlisted into the 10th (Prince of Wales Own Royal) Hussars of the Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line and was serving with them when he was killed in action on 11th April 1917 in the France and Flanders European Theatre of War.  His rank was Private but is sometimes shown as Trooper. He had two brothers killed in the war. At the time of his death the Greys were living at Grange House, Morpeth.

Morpeth Herald 27/04/1917 carries a brief obituary:
Mr and Mrs W.A. Grey, Grange House, Morpeth, have received official news that their son, Trooper [sic] George Grey, of the Hussars, was killed in action in France on the 11th inst. The deceased was the fifth son of Mr and Mrs Grey, and would have been 22 years of age three days after he was killed. He was a bank clerk in the Morpeth branch of the London and Joint Stock Bank, and joined the Hussars shortly after the outbreak of war. He was a young man well known in Morpeth, and was greatly respected by his many comrades. Mr and Mrs Grey have four other sons in the Army.

CWGC states that his parents William Anson and Annie Margaret Grey lived at Longhirst Kennels, Morpeth.

His brothers Joseph and Robert also died in WW1.

George Grey is remembered in Morpeth on M17.01 M17.02 M17.09 and M17.29