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PRIVATE
GEORGE DOBSON ACOMB
No. 47089, 25th
(Tyneside Irish) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers.
Died
of Wounds, 23rd April 1917.
Age 33
years.
Buried in Etaples Military Cemetery,
Pas de Calais, France.Plot XIX, Row G, Grave 12.
George Acomb was the second
son of the Acomb family to die during the Great War. His brother Hubert had been killed in action the previous year on the
Somme. They were the first and third sons of Dennison Acomb and his wife, Hannah (nee Dobson) who also had a son called Arthur,
a daughter, Violette and a fourth son, Robert Clarence.
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| The badge of the Tyneside Irish |
Dennison Acomb was an Agricultural Labourer who married Hannah Dobson in Malton 1883. The following year,
their eldest child, George, was born in Pocklington, and second son Arthur born in Full Sutton which illustrates a quite unsettled
period in the lives of the members of the family, however Violette, Hubert, and Robert were all born in Topcliffe, where it
appears the family settled for a period before moving to Mirfield prior to coming to Barwick in Elmet.
All of the Acomb sons served in the Army during the Great War. George was with the Northumberland Fusiliers
at the time of his death, but had previously served with the West Yorkshire Regiment; Arthur saw service with the West Yorkshire
Regiment, the Leicestershire Regiment and the Royal Engineers; Hubert was killed with the Lancashire Fusiliers and Robert
served with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the Royal Army Service Corps, but he had indicated a preference
for the Royal Field Artillery on his Attestation Papers.
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| Aberford War Memorial |
In 1910 George Acomb married Caroline Banks, and they lived on Main
Street in Aberford. They did not have any children. The 1911 census records that George was working as a cowman on a farm.
George Acomb is also commemorated on the War Memorial at Aberford.
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| The grave of George Dobson Acomb |
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