BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE HENRY CRESSEY AND AMELIA ANNIE CRESSEY, OF 4 BLENKINS PLACE, WALLER STREET, HULL AND 3, GRANVILLE AVENUE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A DOCKER. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. EMPLOYED AS A FIREMAN ON THE RAILWAYS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS CORPORAL, 5480, 11TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. KILLED IN ACTION, AT THE SOMME, ON 04/10/1916, AGED 24. COMMEMORATED ON THE THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE AND MOTHER AMELIA.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE GARDENERS SOCIETY MEMORIAL, AT HULL’S HOLY TRINITY MINSTER.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE HULL’S WALLER STREET, SHRINE (HDM 31/10/1916).
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Military Number:
5480
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
04/10/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
24
4, BLENKIN PLACE, WALLER STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
