8253 L/Cpl David McGeorge, 2nd Bn Border Regt

739 British officers and men died on this day of heavy fighting on the 26th October 1914. 8253 L/Cpl David McGeorge of the 2nd Battalion, The Border Regiment was killed in action on this day. He was born in Carlisle and enlisted there on the 10th March 1906 in what was a bumper recruitment year for the Border Regiment. Thirty-six pages of his service record survive in WO 363. He was 26 years old, the son of the late William McGeorge, and Mary McGeorge of 37 Colville Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle, and the husband of Frances McGeorge of 23 Colville Street, Denton Holme, Carlisle. He had married Frances in June 1914 and was on the Army Reserve when war was declared.

David McGeorge has no known grave and is commemorated on the Menin Gate at Ypres.


At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission