BORN HULL 1893. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY APPLEBY AND EMMA APPLEBY ABOVE & 34 BARMSTON STREET. HE PREVIOUSLY WORKED ON HULL DOCKS AND WAS A FEED CAKE MILLER. ENLISTED HULL.. KILLED ON THE SOMME, AGED 23. HE WAS REPORTED WOUNDED AND MISSING IN THE HDM 21/10/16, 27/1/17 & 3/2/17. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 24TH JANUARY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. * HIS YOUNGER BROTHER PTE, WILLIAM APPLEBY, WYR WAS KILLED ALMOST THE SAME DAY TWO YEARS LATER, ON 20/7/1918, AGED 19.
First name:
ALFRED
Regiment:
Military Number:
21035
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/07/1916
Place died:
Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France
Age:
23
