BORN LUND, YORKSHIRE, 1889. SON OF ROBERT AND JANE ELIZABETH SOWERSBY, OF BEVERLEY AND DRIFFIELD. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.
A FORMER WAGGONER ON WEST ELLA GRANGE ESTATE, HULL (1911 CENSUS). ALSO EX HULL POLICEMAN. LIVING AT 2, ETTY GROVE, WYNDHAM STREET, HULL.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED IN THE 32ND DIVISIONAL AMMUNITION COLUMN, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 23/10/1918, AGED 29.
HE LEFT £168 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, ROBERT.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 30/10/1918.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HYMERS COLLEGE MEMORIAL.
NOTE. HIS NAME IS RECORDED AS ROBERT SOWERSBY IN SOLDIERS DIED RECORDS.
He is commemorated on the Hull City Police Force Memorial Plaque, Priory Road Police station, Hull, unveiled on 21st January 1923.
