BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JAMES & CATHERINE (KATE) CONROY (1871-1951), OF 126 HODGSON STREET, HULL. ELDEST OF SIX SONS. AN OIL MILLER. RESIDNG AT 14 LILLIES GORVE, KENT STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED ABROAD ON 14/07/1915. SERVED WITH THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE PIONEER BATTALION. HE WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, TAKING THE TEPPE TEKE RIDGE. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER WHO MOVED TO 29 ANN’S PLACE, SYKES STREET, HULL.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH MEMORIAL. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL, AT THE DARDANELLES. HIS NAMES IS ALSO RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE SYKES STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, HULL (Hull Daily Mail 09 October 1916)
HIS BROTHER, JOHN CONROY, ENLISTED AT HULL, ON 17/11/1915, AGED 19 YEARS AND 69 DAYS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 4.5 INCH CHEST, 126 LBS WEIGHT, 34 INCH CHEST, “GOOD” CHARACTER. FORMERLY, PRIVATE 13/327, 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DISCHARGED DUE TO DEFECTIVE VISION.
