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Private George Pownall 21650
72nd Machine Gun Corps
Son of Richard and Emma Pownall of Lords Row.
He was employed at Bickerstaffe Colliery before joining the army.
George volunteered soon after the outbreak of war
and was soon to see much action on the Western Front. On the 6th
August 1917 he was wounded whilst partaking in the dour defence of Ypres in
Belgium. He died three days later at the age of 25.
His cousin John who won the Military Medal was in
hospital in France at this time.
On the Bickerstaffe Memorial George is also
credited with having won the M.M. but the Commonwealth War Graves Commision can
find no record of this.
Interment
is at Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, plot 2 row D. grave 39. This lies just
inside the ring road, south of the town which is 9 Km. To the west of Ypres.
