Private 22776, George BATTERSBY, 7th Royal Lancaster Regiment died 31st October 1918 aged 27. He was the son Alfred and Mary Ann and husband of Clarice A native of Bowness-on-Windermere. Some notes from what remains of his Army record. He joined up on the 12th December 1916 aged 25yrs and 1 month, occupation grocers carter and he lived at 11, South Terrace, Bowness, Westmorland. On the 2nd January 1912 at Kendal parish church he married Clarice Robinson and she lived at 11, South Terrace. He served in France from 13th November 1916 to 29th March 1917 and then from the 7th July 1917 to 12th August 1917 when he returned to England on the 13th July. He was seen by an Army Medical Board at Southern General Hospital, Birmingham and was discharged as "no longer physically fit for war service" approved 21st November 1917. He was discharged from the Depot of the Lancaster Regiment 12th December 1917 and was given 1 pound in advance and a suit of plain clothes and greatcoat (this would have been to help ward off the cold). He was discharged to his home, now at Woodside Cottage, Bowness. His disability was, Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Regurgitation. (Heart condition). He is at rest in Bowness Cemetery, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria