BORN HULL 19/09/1892. BAPTISED AT ST CHARLES BOORMEO, HULL, ON 08/01/1893. SON OF JAMES HENRY CHILDS (1858-1920) & MARGARET McGANN (1870-1952), OF 1, JAMES PLACE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND SIX SISTERS, SOME OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN “A” COMPANY, 3RD EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. DIED OF PNEUMONIA, ON 02/02/1915, AGED 22, AT RECKITTS HOSPITAL, DANSOM LANE, HULL. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TOHIS MOTHER, MARGARET.
HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON HULL’S NEW GEORGE STREET ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 03 November 1917).
HIS FUNERAL WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 11/12/1915.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
HIS FATHER SERVED AS JAMES HENRY ‘MITCHELL’ AND DIED IN HULL ON 23/01/1920. BOTH FATHER AND SON ARE BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY IN CWGC GRAVES.
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOSEPH FREDERICK CHILDS, 45730, 3512821, RAMC & 1ST MANCHESTER, GARRISON BN, DIED AT LEEDS, ON 04/06/1922, AGED 31. HIS WIDOW, LIVED AT 16. SPITTLE STREET, THE GROVES, HULL.
