Private George Paling

Army Number: 4703

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Brother of James Paling, of 137, High Street, Newhall, Burton-On-Trent. Killed in action, 1st July 1916, aged 33, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated : Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.