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Pair: Gunner G. W. Tryner, Royal Garrison Artillery, who was forced to stump up bail in 1949 when his jealous eldest son attempted to murder his daughter-in-law with a carving knife

British War and Victory Medals (207898 Gnr. G. W. Tryner. R.A.) good very fine (2) £70-£90

George William Tryner was born at Denton, Lincolnshire, around 1880. A presser and threader in the lace trade, he moved his growing family to Rose Cottage, Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, and enlisted as a Gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery in April 1918. According to his Army Service Record he served four months in Salonika, but his front line duties were curtailed by dysentery and poor conditions; transferred to the 2nd Western General Hospital to recuperate, he was evacuated home per H.M.T. Nile in December 1918 and discharged to Army Reserve on 27 April 1919.

By now father to Harold, Gladys and Kenneth, Trynor likely hoped to return to a quiet and peaceful life. This all changed on 10 September 1949 when he found himself standing £40 bail for his eldest son at Nottinghamshire Hall Court, Harold being charged with attempting to murder his wife, Naomi Tryner, by strangulation and cutting her throat. The Nottingham Journal of 4 October 1949 offers some more detail:
‘After a hearing lasting nearly three hours, Nottingham Shire Hall magistrates yesterday decided that a charge of attempted murder against a 41-year-old packer, Harold Tryner, of 26 Hanson-road, Stapleford, should be withdrawn and a charge of aggravated assault substituted. Tryner then pleaded guilty, and was bound over for two years to keep the peace. The magistrates made an order for his separation from his wife, whom he was alleged to have attacked with a carving knife, and tried to strangle last month, and he was ordered to pay maintenance of £1 10s. a week for his wife, and 10s. for each of their two children.

While her husband still stood accused of trying to murder her, Mrs. Naomi Tryner told the magistrates about quarrels caused, she said, by her husband's jealousy, and described incidents on Whit Sunday night, when, she alleged, he followed her into the bedroom with a craving knife and threatened "to do me in and the children also".

Pleading for his wife to come back to him, Harold Tryner added:
'If I can't have you no one else will...”’

It remains unclear whether Naomi Tryner returned to her former career as a cinema usherette. George William Tryner died on 11 December 1961.