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The Roll of Honour records that "Bombardier Jack Unger, Late of Wagon & Horses, Narrow Street", died on an unspecified date serving in the Royal Field Artillery, stating he was killed in action in Salonica. His name was actually George Abery Unger, and he died on 7/1/1916.
(CWGC records that Bombardier G. Unger, regimental number 50406, died on 7/1//1916 serving in B Battery, 98th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and is buried in grave 1376 at Mikra British Cemetery in Kalamaria, Greece.
The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that Bombardier George Unger, regimental number 50406, died in the Balkans on 7/1/1916, and that his legatee was James Holley. The Medal Rolls record that George was sent to France on 4/9/1915, and that he died on 7/1/1916. Soldiers Died in the Great War records him as a native of Shoreditch who had enlisted in London, and that he died on 7/1/1916.
The birth of George Abery Unger was registered in Shoreditch District in 1889. The Holborn Union Admittance and Discharge registers record that he was born at St Luke's Workhouse in Holborn on 24/12/1889 as the illegitimate son of Louisa Unger, who had been admitted to the Workhouse earlier that day; she was recorded as being an 18 year old governess. Louisa was discharged from the workhouse on 10/1/1890, taking her son George with her. On the 1891 census George Unger was lodging with a Mrs Mary Stanion at The Green in Islip, Northamptonshire. [His mother Louisa was listed on that census as a visitor at the House of Mercy Lodge in Ditchingham, Norfolk; she was recorded on that census as a former lady's maid, born in Wurttemberg, Germany]. On the 1901 census George Unger was aged 10, living as an inmate at Thrapston Workhouse in Northamptonshire. On the 1911 census he was serving as a Driver in the 41st Battery of the Royal Field Artillery in Woolwich.
On 5/2/1916 the Peterborough Advertiser announced the death in Salonica of "Bombardier Jack Unger", stating him to be a former ostler at the Wagon & Horses. In a separate article in the same edition, the Advertiser reported that "Bombardier George Unger" had been killed in an air raid on Salonica. They quoted from a letter of condolence that had been written by Lieutenant A W Munns to Mr & Mrs Blackdown of Peterborough, in which he wrote that George had survived only five minutes after being hit in an air raid on 7th January 1916, and had been buried with full military honours on 8/1/1916. Lieutenant Munns stated in his letter that George's paybook etc had been sent to the base for forwarding to Mr George Savage, Post Office, Glatton, who was recorded as being George Unger's next of kin. George Unger's death was also announced on 25/2/1916 in the Northampton Mercury, which described him as a former Thrapston schoolboy, who had been killed in action on 7/1/1916).