File:George BATTERSBY.JPG

English: Gravestone of Private 22776, George Battersby, 7th Royal Lancaster Regiment, who died 31 October 1918 aged 27. He was the son of 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 12 December 1916 aged 25 years and 1 month, occupation grocer's 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 13 November 1916 to 29 March 1917 and then from the 7 July 1917 to 12 August 1917 when he returned to England on 13 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 in advance and a suit of plain clothes and greatcoat (to help ward off the cold). He was discharged to his home, now at Woodside Cottage, Bowness. His disability was aortic stenosis and mitral Rregurgitation (a heart condition). His body is buried in Bowness Cemetery, Bowness on Windermere, Cumbria.