BORN WATER PRIORY, POCKLINGTON, YORKS 1886. SON OF FRANCIS JOHN THOMAS FRANKISH & JANE SCRUTON. A DOCK LABOURER. HE LIVED AT 5 CARLTON AVENUE, DELHI STREET, MARFLEET, HULL. MARRIED OCTOBER 1909. WIFE, MAUD EDITH BOSS & DAUGHTER MAUD (BORN IN 1915). HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT ARRAS, ON 26/10/1917. AGED 31. HIS WIFE LATER MOVED TO 6 ABBEY STREET, HULL.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MARFLEET LANE ROLL OF HONOUR.
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM DRY
Military Number:
242355
Rank:
Private
Date Died
26/10/1917
Place died:
Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
31
