BORN BEVERLEY 1881. SON OF RICHARD BOLTON & FANNY GREENSHAW, OF HULL. HE LIVED IN SCARBOROUGH. WORKED AS A GROCERS ASSISTANT.
MARRIED IN LEVEN, HULL, ON 26/12/1907. HUSBAND TO SARAH JANE (GRANTHAM). THEY LIVED WITH THEIR TWO SONS AT 7, MAYE GROVE, PERTH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, SERVED AS SERGEANT, 79312, 2ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 29/04/1918, AGED 38.
HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “HOW SHORT THE LIFE BUT GREAT THE SACRIFICE”
HIS SON ERNEST, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, IN 1943, AGED 33.
First name:
JOHN FENNELL
Military Number:
79312
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
29/04/1918
Place died:
Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
38
