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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Byers Green Junction, Ferryhill
• Land County Durham
• Last residence Ferryhill Station
• Family Son of George Dring and Sarah Ord, of 13, Trafalgar St., Ferryhill, Co. Durham.
  Two brothers, Edward (1900) and John Robert (1911); two sisters, Annie (1901) and Lilian (1920).
• Profession Coal miner at Mainsforth Colliery Ferryhill.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 28 November 1914
• Service number 17691
• Rank Corporal
• Medals M M, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 9th Bn. Yorkshire Regiment
• Other data related to military career to France on 26 August 1915;
  Military Medal was awarded during the battle of the Somme during attack on the village of Contalmaison 10 July 1916

Death

• Wounded 7 th June 1917 Battle Wood near Hill 60
• Type of wounds Shot in hip and whilst on stretcher shot in stomach by sniper
• Died at the age of 21
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XIII - C - 9A

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