BORN HULL 1893. LIVED HESSLE. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF JOHN WESLEY (1851-1926) & HANNAH BONTOFT (1853-1893), OF 6 HILDA GROVE, BARROW LANE, HESSLE. A TURNER & FITTER. HE SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/09/1914. KILLED IN ACTION ON 03/12/1914, AGED 21. COMMEMORATED IN BELGIUM. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TIS FATHER.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH, WITH JAMES BONTOFT, 1ST EYR, DIED OF WOUNDS, 9TH SEPTEMBER 1914.
First name:
HERBERT
Regiment:
Military Number:
9758
Rank:
Private
Date Died
03/12/1914
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
21
6 BARROW LANE, HESSLE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
