| Regiment/Service: |
9th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
28/02/1893
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| Died: |
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
23 |
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George Farr was the son of Robert and Annie Farr. George was born in Drumglass about 1893.By 1901 the family where living at Claggan, Crossdernot, Tyrone. By 1911, 20 year old George had left home and moved to Dungororan, Crossdernot, Tyrone where he was working as a servant for the Jackson family, who were farmers. His father had died and the family now lived at Lisnagleer, Crossdernot, Tyrone. George Farr was following a family tradition when he left his home at Claggan, Mulnagore, Dungannon, to go to war. A brother had been killed in the South African campaign more than 15 years previously. George Farr enlisted in Dungannon. Private George Farr was with the 9th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers was killed in action on 1st July 1916.
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The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
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