BORN HULL 25/02/1892. SON OF FRED SNOWDEN (1857-1901) AND ADA HARMON (1853-1928), OF 3, CONSTABLE BUILDINGS, ENGLISH STREET (1911 CENSUS), 13 WILLIAM PLACE, ST JAMES STREET, HULL AND 45, WALKER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD A YOUNGER BROTHER FRED. WORKED AS A FISH HOUSE LABOURER. RESIDED AT 44 , BEECROFT STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEERS, AND WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI ON 22/08/1916, AGED 22.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON WALKER STREET MEMORIAL, WITH THIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, FRED SNOWDEN, 13TH EYR, KILLED AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, ALSO AGED 22. THEIR WAR PENSIONS WENT TO THEIR WIDOWED MOTHER, WHO HAD LOST BOTH SONS