BORN HULL 1892. SON OF SELINA & WALTER BREWSTER ABOVE 1901 CENSUS. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. BROTHER WALTER AND SISTERS MARY, ADA AND EMILY. HE WORKED AS A GENERAL LABOURER. ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 10/07/1916, AGED 24. UNMARRIED. HIS FATHER WALTER RECEIVED HIS WAR GRATUITY PENSION. HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE NEW GEORGE STREET MEMORIAL AND THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917)
First name:
GEORGE WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
913
Rank:
Private
Date Died
10/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
24
