Current Information:

Age-23

30, Armoury Yard, The Plain, Wandsworth

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium

On 6th March, 1916, the day George Dyson died from wounds, the 11th Rifle Brigade battalion of 59 Brigade, 20th Division moved into brigade reserve in the Ypres salient from where they provided working parties.

These tasks meant either providing carrying parties to take supplies of all kinds to the front line or working at trench digging, road making, railway laying and host of other tasks, sometimes under command of the Royal Engineers. The activities usually took place at night and were often very dangerous. Harassing artillery and machine-gun fire from the enemy would be kept up intermittently throughout the night designed to disrupt the work as much as possible. Tracks along which carrying parties had to travel to reach the front line were known to the German gunners and targeted accordingly. Many a soldier met his death while in reserve as was possibly the case with George Dyson.