BORN 1887. EX NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY WORKER. HE MARRIED, AMY MAY CROSSLAND, IN HULL 1915. THEY LIVED WITH IN LAWS, MR AND MRS CROSSLAND AT THIS ADDRESS. HE WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS. ENLISTED IN THE RAILWAY PALS. THE 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, FORMED AT KING GEORGE COCK, HULL, IN 1914. HE DIED OF WOUNDS LEAVING A WIDOW AND CHILD. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 15TH AUGUST 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.*
HIS BROTHER IN LAW IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD, PTE, CHARLES WILLIAM CROSSLAND, EYR WAS KILLED ON 05/05/1917.
First name:
ROBERT HOOD
Military Number:
17/624
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/06/1917
Place died:
Mendinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
30
22 LOCKWOOD TERRACE, LOCKWOOD STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
