George Harry Pridmore was a distant cousin of mine and was born in Sheffield in 1896, eleventh of the thirteen children of William Thomas & Sarah Jane (nee Culpin). By the age of fourteen, he was a chemist's errand boy. In 1917, George married May Foster.
He and five of his brothers served in the Great War.
The Sheffield Daily Telegraph takes up the story: "Second-Lieutenant G H Pridmore, of the West Yorkshire Regiment, who was 22 years of age, and lived at Walkley, Sheffield, has been killed in action. Two of Lieutenant Pridmore's brothers had previously been killed, and one had died of wounds. There are still two other brothers serving with the forces - an excellent family record. Writing to Mrs Pridmore, one of Lieutenant Pridmore's officers says: "I know how great your sorrow will be, but you will, I hope, take comfort from the knowledge that he died taking charge of his men, and cheerfully doing his duty."
We will remember them.
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