BORN HULL 1886. SON OF PATRICK & ELIZABETH CAVENEY. LIVED 8 WHITBOURNE TERRACE, GOODWIN STREET, HULL. A BOILER CLEANER. HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 3/6612, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 29. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY ANN. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE, MEMORIAL, TO THE MISSING.
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED AS J CAVENY, 2ND EYR, ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.
First name:
JOHN
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/6612
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
29
8 WHITBOURNE TERRACE, GOODWIN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
