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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Private George John Harvey.     Born in 1885 in Stoke Newington, London, the son of George John and Caroline Harvey. His father was a Carman. He was baptised, together with his sister Lily Ethel Harvey on the 9^th October 1887 at St Matthias Church, Stoke Newington and the family were living at 106 Spencer Road, Stoke Newington. In late 1908 he married Alice Edith Watson in Brentford, Middlesex and on the April 1911 census, he is shown as a Warehouseman for Government Contractors for Clothing, living at 32 Swinbrook Road, North Kensington with his wife and two children, George Charles Harvey and Ethel Florence Harvey. In February 1913 he was appointed as a Porter in the Post Office’s Western District Office. He joined the 2^nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays), service number 5787 and entered France on the 8^th October 1914. He was Killed in Action at the Battle of Frezenberg Ridge on the 13^th May 1915, aged 30 years. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West Flanders, Belgium. He was posthumously awarded the 1914 Star and Clasp, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

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