East Yorkshire Regiment
Date of death: 27/09/1916 (aged 21)
BORN BEVERLEY 1895. SON OF WILLIAM THOMAS & MARGARET ANN GILLYON OF 57 KELDGATE, BEVERLEY. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, MACHINE GUN CORPS 150TH. APPRENTICE HOUSE PAINTER.
Commemorated: Etaples Cemetery, France Ref: XI, B, 2A
East Yorkshire Regiment section (1/4th Bn.) of the 1914-1918 memorial in the Beverley Minster. Memorial Hall, Beverley.
Keldgate Roll of Honour. Beverley Memorial, Hengate, Beverley
Son of Mr and Mrs . T. Gillyon of 64 Keldgate, Beverley.
“Pte Frederick Gillyon, Beverley, Dies of Wounds. Mrs Gillyon of 57 Keldgate, Beverley has received official information that her eldest son Pte Frederick Gillyon, East Yorkshire Regiment, has died of wounds. He had been at the front six months and previous to joining the colours was an apprentice with Messrs. Burton Bros., painters, Beverley. He was 21 years of age. ” (Photograph, BG Saturday 30th September 1916) Posted wounded in the EYR Snapper magazine June 1916.
