BORN HULL 1880. SON OF MICHAEL McNALLY (1855-1902) & ELLEN BRANNAN, OF 18, GREGORY’S BUILDING, MOXON STREET, HULL AND 24, CAROLINE STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS). SON OF A NIGHT SOIL COLLECTOR. HE WAS ELDEST OF EIGHT CHILDREN ANDWORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER.
HE MARRIED, MARY ANN WELSH, AT HULL. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, MARGARET.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS CORPORAL, 220003, 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED AT OPPY WOOD ON 3RD MAY 1917, AGED 37. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE ARRAS MEMORIAL.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY ANN McNALLY, AND DAUGHTER, MARGARET, AT 1, VICTORIA SQUARE, CAROLINE STREET, HULL AND 3, INVERNESS BUILDINGS, HILL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Military Number:
220003
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
03/05/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
37
