George Halvorsen

Serjeant George Halvorsen was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Tynemouth, the son of Norwegian-born mariner Martin Marinius Thorvald and Sarah Annie Halvorsen (née Fairhurst), of North Shields. At the time of the 1911 Census, Halvorsen was working as an office boy while living with his family at 62 Trevor Terrace.
Halvorsen died on 26 September 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, while serving on the Western Front with the Royal Garrison Artillery.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Halvorsen, George, cwgc.org. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
Category:1894 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Norwegian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
Category:Sergeants