BORN HULL 1892. SON OF GEORGE ALFRED AND LAVINIA ALCOCK, AT 62 RUGBY STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE WORKED AS A SHIP’S TRIMMER. EX EMPLOYEE OF AMOS SMITH OF HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, IN FEBRUARY 1914. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 1803, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE ON 18/04/1915. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 03/05/1915, AGED 23. UNMARRIED, HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 06/11/1915, AND IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 03/05/1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS BROTHER, ABLE SEAMAN, WILLIAM COATES ALCOCK, WAS LOST AT SEA, ON THE TRAWLER ‘THURINGA”, ON 11/11/1917, AGED 26. HE LIVED AT 13 JOHN’S TERRACE, WALCOTT STREET, HULL.
First name:
GEORGE ALFRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
1803
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/05/1915
Place died:
bedford house cemetery belgium
Age:
23
