BORN COLNE, LANCASHIRE 1890. ONLY SON OF MARY HEBBLEWHITE, OF 5 PERSEVERANCE TERRACE, WOOD LANE, OFF COGAN STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. WAS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. SERVED SEVEN YEARS IN INDIA WITH 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. CAME HOME FOR THREE DAYS IN JANUARY 1915. KILLED ON THE 13TH FEBRUARY 1915, AGED 25. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, YPRES.
HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY HEBBLEWHITE, AT 3 SOVEREIGN PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL (PENSION LEDGER ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 9TH MARCH 1915. *
First name:
WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
8923
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/02/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
3 SOVEREIGN PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
