George Pollard was the son of George and Millicent Pollard of Jessamine Cottage, Barrowden and joined the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards on 28 September 1916, going out to the Western Front in March the following year. He took part in the Third Battle of Ypres and was in the attack when the Guards drove their way through Bourlon Wood in spite of a desperate resistance from a German line, including several battalions of Prussian Guards, which resulted in capturing a stretch of the Hindenburg line. George was killed instantly by shrapnel near the village of Ribecourt on 28 September 1918, and was initially buried in Hill Cemetery, north-west of Flesquieres, near Cambrai. He is now buried in Sanders Keep Military Cemetery in France, which was created in 1918, grave III.C.10. His Commanding Officer wrote to his parents: "Your son behaved most gallantly under very trying circumstances." George is on Barrowden's war memorial inside the church and is also remembered on his parents' memorial in the churchyard, on the right handside near the entrance gate.