BORN SCARBOROUGH 1887. A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER. ENLISTED SCARBOROUGH. SERVED WITH THE 2ND WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 05/10/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, 30/10/1914, AGED 27. COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, YPRES.
HIS UNMARRIED WIFE, MINNIE ROBINSON, LIVED AT 6 ETHELS GROVE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE EDWARD IRELAND, AT 17 CHURCH STAIRS STREET, SCARBOROUGH.
HIS DEATH, ADDRESS & PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HDM 13/0/2/1915, AND IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 17/04/1915. *
His name is listed on the Brighton Street Shrine, Hull (Hull Daily Mail 30 August 1916)
First name:
PERCY
Military Number:
7580
Rank:
Private
Date Died
30/10/1914
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
6 ETHELS GROVE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
