BORN HULL 10/11/1881. SON OF DAVID DENT (1854-1923) & REBECCA TRAVES. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND FOUR SISTERS. WORKED AS A TRAMWAY MOTORMAN, AT THEDDLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE (1911 CENSUS)
HE MARRIED VIOLET ANNIE SHEPHERD (1886-1966), AT HULL, IN 1907. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 39, JAMES STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS ADRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED ON WOUNDS, ON 21/04/1918, AGED 36, AT THE 148 ROYAL NAVAL FIELD AMBULANCE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON ST MARY’S CHURCH MEMORIAL, LOWGATE.
BURIED AT PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE, READS, “REST IN PEACE”.
First name:
DAVID WILLIAM
Military Number:
21257
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
21/04/1918
Place died:
PUCHEVILLERS BRITISH CEMETERY, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
36
39 , JAMES STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried