BORN HULL 1882. SON OF JAMES CHARLES CHILD & JESSIE (STRONG) CHILD, OF 16 VILLA TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL, 3 OLIVE TERRACE, OLIVE STREET, HULL AND 12, ELM TREE AVENUE, PARK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). A FRUITIER BY TRADE. HE RESIDED AT BEAN STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE 5TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, KILLED IN ACTION, ON 11/09/1916, AGED 35.
HE IS LISTED ON THE BEAN STREET ROH (Hull Daily Mail 17 October 1916). HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 4TH OCTOBER 1916.
HIS NAME WAS ALSO RECORDED AS J CHILDS, 5TH NFUS, ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2.