BORN HULL 30/06/1898. SECOND SON OF PERCY JAMES EGGLETON (1873-1957) AND EDITH FLORENCE EGGLETON (1875-1951, OF 543, HESSLE ROAD (DENTAL SURGERY) AND 171, WOODCOCK STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS MOTHER WORKED IN A LAUNDRY
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY 3975, EAST YORKS REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED TO 1/6TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 30/05/1918, AGED 19. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER EDITH.
HE LEFT SISTERS, FLORENCE, EDITH AND EMILY AND OLDER BROTHER WALTER.
COMMEMORATED: Soissons Memorial, Soissons, Departement de l’Aisne, Picardie, France.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
THE NAME GEORGE EGGLSTON IS CARVED ON THE STONE PILLAR MEMORIAL, AT ST MARYS, CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE.
NB: ROBERT THOMAS EGGLETON AT NO: 44, & WILLIAM JAMES EGGLETON AT 45 SEATON STREET, HULL.
NOTE OTHERS: SGT ERNEST EGGLETON, RAMC – 75, SCULCOATES LANE, WALTER EGGLETON – 8, PORTLAND PLACE, 7 ETON ST; & EGGLETON FAMILY AT 91, CHILTERN STREET.
