BORN HULL 1887. SON OF THE LATE JOSEPH AN ALICE BROWN, BRIAR VILLE, WITHERNSEA.. HUSBAND OF HILDA C. BROWN AT THIS PROBATE ADDRESS. WORKED FOR HIS FATHER, AS A CLERK IN A TOBACCONIST AND FANCY GOODS SHOP. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL IN THE 1/4TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY. HE MARRIED HILDA C. SYKES, IN HULL IN 1916. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/04/1918, AGED 31. COMMEMORATED ON THE TYNE COT MEMORIAL. HE LEFT A SISTER RACHEL AND £130 TO WILLIAM SHIPSTONE, A PAPER MERCHANT.
First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
203301
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
13/04/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
31
44 CHEVERTON AVENUE, WITHERNSEA, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
