George Outram

A photo of George Outram who was NOT enlisted in the army. He wore a uniform so that if captured by the Germans he would not be shot as a spy. He was a lighterman, a freight hauler.

He married Margaret (Mag) Charlotte Constable (1871-1932) on Christmas Day 1889 at St Paul’s Church, Bow Common, which stood on the site of the modern St Paul’s with St Luke’s Church, at the junction of Burdett Rd and St Paul’s Way. After service in the Merchant Navy, George became a lighterman, and he and Mag had ten children.

He was born in 1870 and died in Mile End Hospital in April 1938, aged sixty-eight.