6th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth:
06/09/1888
Died:
10/10/1918 (Died at Sea)
Age:
30
Summary
George Lutton was the son of George and Eliza Lutton. He was born on the Armagh side of the River Blackwater, near Moy, on 6th September 1888. Hi mother died when he was seven. George and the family lived in Canary, Tullyroan, County Armagh. George Lutton volunteered at the outbreak of war, joining the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was transferred to the Royal Munster Fusiliers. Private Lutton had been invalided home in September 1918. He was returning to England on the R.M.S. Leinster. Just a month before the war ended, on 10th October 1918, the ship was torpedoed and sank. Private George Lutton is buried in Kirk Patrick (Holy Trinity) Churchyard on the Isle of Man.
There are 33 Commonwealth burials of the 1914-18 war here, 1 being an unidentified sailor of the Royal Navy. There is 1 more burial from the 1939-45 war. In addition there are 7 Turkish intered civilian burials and 2 German war burials here.
