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Gunner George Albert MARTIN

Royal Field Artillery, 4th Division Ammunition Column 63730


George Albert was born in May 1886 in Spratton, the son of Joseph Martin, a farm labourer, timber carter and later a milkman, and his wife, Elizabeth (née Bromwich).  The Martins were a long established family in Spratton who had lived in Manor Road and then Station Road (now Brixworth Road). Five brothers in Joseph and Elizabeth’s family served in the First World War – Harry, Joseph, George, William and Walter.

George had joined the Regular army when he left school and in 1911 when he was 24 he was stationed in the Woolwich Barracks in London as a gunner with the Royal Field Artillery. When war broke out he was posted to India with the 4th Division Ammunition Column.  He died in hospital in Karachi of malaria on 16 October 1917 aged 31 and is remembered on the Delhi Memorial (India Gate) and the War Memorial in Spratton churchyard. He was awarded the British War Medal. 

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