BORN HULL 31/05/1881. SON OF HANNAH AUDAS. EMPLOYED AS AN ENGINE DRIVER. HE LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER, AT 52, HAWORTH STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS).
HE MARRIED IN 1912. HIS WIFE CATHERINE SELLER BOOTH, AND DAUGHTER, DORA, LIVED AT 121, LEE STREET, HULL (CWGC & WAR PENSION ADDRESS), AND 17, RUSTENBURG STREET, NEW BRIDGE ROAD, HULL. SERVED AS A ROYAL NAVY STOKER, FROM 20/06/1889. ENLISTED IN THE ‘HOOD BATTALION’, ROYAL NAVAL DIVISION, AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. KILLED IN ACTION, AT GALLIPOLI, ON 19/07/1915, AGED 33. BURIED IN AN UNUSED TURKISH TRENCH. COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, TURKEY.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE LEE STREET MEMORIAL, HULL. (HULL DAILY MAIL 19/07/1918). HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 11/10/1915.
HE IS ALSO RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE RUSTENBURG STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 25 September 1916)
