Private George Baines and his brother Herbert both died in the First World War. They were the sons of of G Baines and his wife of Hambleton where George was born on 26 September 1895. He was a gardener and joined up in August 1914, on the outbreak of war, and went out to France in June the following year with the 2nd Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. At some point he transferred to the Army Cyclist Corps. We cannot be certain which battalion he served with, although it could have been the one attached to IX Corps. At the end of May 1918 it was at Fismes, halfway between Soissons and Reims. George was killed by a shell on 27 May 1918, aged 23. He has no known grave and is remembered on the Soissons Memorial, and also on Hambleton's war memorial.