BORN HULL 1889. SON OF CHARLES HENRY GALTRESS & SARAH E WARD, LIVING AT 3 UNION PLACE, WINCOLMLEE, 8 ALBERT’S TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL (HDM ADDRESS) AND 5 ALBERT TERRACE, ORPHAN HOME, GREEN LANE, HULL. HE WAS ONE OF FOUR BROTHERS. ENLISTED IN HULL. WAS A REGULAR SOLDIER, SERVING WITH THE 2ND EYR AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. ACTING CORPORAL. KILLED IN ACTION ON 5TH MAY 1915, AGED 25. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WENT TO HIS MOTHER, SARAH. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES ON THE 15TH MAY 1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, AND IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 29TH MAY 1915. *
HIS NAME IS ALSO LISTED ON THE LOCKWOOD STREET MEMORIAL.
BURIED: Tyne Cot Cemetery, Zonnebeke, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium
First name:
ROBERT HENRY
Regiment:
Military Number:
9019
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
05/05/1915
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
8 ALBERT TERRACE, GREEN LANE, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
