George was born on the 8th November 1916 in Playford. He was the son of Arthur and Bertha Sadd of Playford. George married Adeline Wood in 1933 and by 1939 the family was living at 20 Ideal Dwellings (Bramford Road).
George was the brother–in-law to Olaf Moss.
The regiment, which had been located in Egypt when the war started, deployed as part of the divisional troops of the 7th Armoured Division and conducted raids on Italian positions in Italian Libya using armoured cars during the Western Desert Campaign. The regiment fought at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942.
Extract from War Diary 1942:
B Sqn. 18th Oct to 19th Oct.
During this period the Sqn were heavily bombed and strafed by 109’s. An average of 5 attacks being made per day, divided evenly between the patrols and SHQ. Three ACs were knocked out, two in 3Tp Mr Digby and one in 5Tp Mr Copeland. Also the charging lorry was knocked out and the ambulance, when it was waiting at SHQ. All these were got back to SHQ.
3Tp had three men wounded, Cpl Stewart, LCpl Palmer and Tpr Whittington, all three only slightly wounded.
5Tp had 1 man killed, Tpr Sadd and 1 man wounded, LCpl Peckett.
Each time the attacks were made every available gun was let off but without any visible result.
On the 19th the Sqn was relieved by C Sqn.