BORN MANCHESTER 1886. WIFE ELIZA (HARE) LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. SON OF ALBERT & MARY WHITELEY. A FORMER REGULAR SOLDIER AND RESERVIST. HE WORKED AS A WINDOW CLEANER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/10/1914, AGED 29. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE PLOEGSTEERT MEMORIAL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ELIZA.
First name:
DAVID JOSEPH
Military Number:
7799
Rank:
Private
Date Died
18/10/1914
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
29
7 OCKLEY TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
