BORN 1887. HUSBAND OF, AMY MAY CROSSLAND, IN HULL 1915. THEY LIVED WITH IN LAWS, MR AND MRS CROSSLAND AT 22, LOCKWOOD TERRACE, LOCKWOOD STREET, HULL. THEY HAD ONE SON, THOMAS THOMPSON, BORN ON 4 MAY 1916.
HE WORKED FOR THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL RAILWAY PALS. THE 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, FORMED AT KING GEORGE COCK, HULL, IN 1914. DIED OF WOUNDS, 12/06/1917, AGED 30. LEFT A WIDOW AND CHILD, AT 5, ST PAUL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION, OF 18 SHILLINGS & NINE PENCE, ON 17 DEC 1917.
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
