BORN CANNING TOWN, MIDDLESEX 1887. SON OF GEORGE HENRY & EMMA FLETCHER. MARRIED MARGARET E. AND LIVED AT 4 ALFRED TERRACE, DALTRY STREET, HULL A LABOURER AND FORMER SOLDIER. HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. SERVED IN THE WEST KENT MILITA, AND JOINED THE YORK AND LANCASTER REGIMENT ON 30/03/1903. . HAD SERVED IN FRANCE SINCE THE 09/09/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, AT HOOGE, ON 08/08/1915, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW AND 4 CHILDREN. HIS YOUNG DAUGHTER, CATHERINE, DIED AFTER HIS DEATH, AGED 16 MONTHS. HE IS BURIED AT BIRR CROSS ROADS CEMETERY, BELGIUM
First name:
WILLIAM CHARLES
Military Number:
7296
Rank:
Private
Date Died
08/08/1915
Place died:
Birr Cross Roads Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
4 ALFRED TERRACE, DALTRY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
