BORN HULL 1895. SON OF MICHAEL (1862-1947) & LOUISA DEVANEY (1864-1912), OF 10 BENJAMIN TERRACE, DALTON STREET, AND 16 HOOD STREET, THE GROVES, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN AND THREE BROTHERS KILLED IN THE WAR. HE ENLISTED IN LONDON. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 12064, 5TH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 31/05/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/08/1916, AGED 22. COMMEMORATED ON TH THIEPVAL MEMORIAL. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, MRS ELLEN JOHNSON. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 7TH MAY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
ANOTHER BROTHER, THOMAS DEVANEY WAS KILLED ON THE 1ST JULY 1916. TWO MORE ARE SERVING AND JOHN WAS REPORTED MISSING. JOHN, WILLIAM & EDWARD DEVANEY LIVED AT 5 WARE’S BUILDING, UPPER UNION STREET, HULL. HIS BROTHERS WERE ALL FEATURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 19/09/1916, WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, PRIVATE, WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, EYR, 43 BARMSTON STREET, HULL WHO WAS WOUNDED.
