BORN HULL 1888. SON OF CHARLES THOMAS & HANNAH OLDROYD, OF 91 PARK GROVE, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A SCHOOL MASTER. HE WAS A SCHOOLMASTER ASSISTANT LIKE HIS SIBLINGS, CHARLES AND EDITH.
HE EMIGRATED TO CANADA. HE WAS A LAW STUDENT.
ENLISTED CALGARY, ALBERTA. HE SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 7TH CANADIAN MACHINE GUN CORPS, 3RD DIVISION OF THE CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. KILLED IN ACTION, SOUTH EAST OF ZILLEBEEKE, 31/05/1916, AGED 28. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, IN HULL.
HE IS BURIED AT MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY, YPRES. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HIS NAME LIVETH EVERMORE – MOTHER AND DAD”.
He is listed on the Alberta Law Society Memorial Plaque, commemorating barristers and students, members of the Alberta Law Society, who died while serving in the First World War
