He is also remembered on the Howden War Memorial, the City and Midland Bank Memorial in London & the memorial in St Mary’s Church, Kirby Fleetham (where his parents resided at the time of his death)
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He was 23 years old & the son of Thomas & Rosamond Burgess, of Eastfield House, Pickering, East Yorks & enlisted 7 Sept 1914. He worked at the Howden Branch of the Midland Bank.
He is buried in Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
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Sgt Dry had been with the 1 ERY during the 1940 campaign, being evacuated at Dunkirk. #Forrard #LestWeForget #WW2
Learn more about the ERY in the NW Europe campaign in Vol 3 of my history of the East Riding Yeomanry – Yeomen Forrard! available from leonaur.com 5/5

Sergeant Dry was taken to a temporary hospital set up in the Roman Catholic girls’ school at Sint Oedenrode, where he died of his wounds. He was buried in the Roman Catholic churchyard. I visited his @cwgc.bsky.social grave earlier this year 4/5

about 15 or 16 in the German infantry, he was only a young boy, hidden behind this big slab of concrete with this crack in it”.
Cpl Les Timms thought "the most dreadful thing was losing George Dry with a gaping head wound” 3/5

Cpl Bob Adams recalled: “he’d gone up to an area where a bridge had been blown up, a big slab of concrete had fallen off the bank, stood up right in the river, there was a big crack in it; Sgt Dry got killed, got shot in the head in his tank, they found a young lad, 2/5

He was killed in action 9 months later. He is buried in Tyne Cot @cwgc.bsky.social Cemetery where I visited his grave earlier this month
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After 14 months with the ERY he was transferred to the 4 (Reserve) Bn East Yorkshire Regiment and embarked for France 22 Dec 1916, disembarking 26 Dec 1916.
Subsequently posted to 8th Bn, East Yorkshire Regiment, no. 28537 in January 1917
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Ernest enlisted again, this time in the 2 Northumbrian Bde RFA, HQ’d at Wenlock Barracks, Hull, 16 Jun 1915. No. 2951, rank: Driver
He applied for a transfer to the 3/1 East Riding Yeomanry, then at Dalton Holme Camp, East Yorkshire, in Oct 1915, no. 2307
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However, he was discharged 15 Jan 1915 having been convicted of a felony (attempting to break into a pawn shop). He was sentenced to 3 months. He had a long criminal record, including a conviction for manslaughter!
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