BORN HULL 1892. SON OF SAMUEL & MARY J CHEESEMAN, OF 81 MYTONGATE, CHARTERHOUSE, CHARTERHOUSE LANE & 57 EDGAR STREET, HULL. HE ALSO RESIDED WITH HIS BROTHER AT THE ‘CROWN & ANCHOR’ PUB, WATERHOUSE LANE, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WORKED AS A FARM SERVANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL , ON 06/08/1914. SERVED, AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. HE WAS TAKEN TO HOSPITAL ON 16/08/1917, WITH SEVERE SHRAPNEL WOUNDS TO ABDOMEN, FACE, BACK AND BOTH THIGHS. HE DIED AT 7PM, THE SAME DAY, AGED 28.
HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM, AT BRANDHOEK NEW MILITARY CEMETERY NO.3.
HIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 01/09/1917. *
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.
NOTE, ANOTHER POSSIBLE ADDRESS: 12 KINGS TERRACE, TERRY STREET.
