BORN HULL 16/04/1887. SON OF JOHN HOLROYD (1845-1916) & MARY WILSON (1853-1910), OF 14 RYDAL TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR, HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED, BY MESSRS LOFTHOUSE AND SALTMER, FOR FOURTEEN YEARS AND WORKED AS A DRAY PARKER IN HULL.
HE MARRIED ROSE ELLEN JUBB (1887-1979), AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, HULL, IN JULY 1906. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN AND RESIDED AT 9 CAMBRIDGE TERRACE, WARNE STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, IN JANUARY 1916. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE HAD ONLY BEEN IN FRANCE FOR TWO WEEKS, WHEN HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 14/07/1916, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED ON THE SOMME.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 28/08/1916. *
HIS BROTHER, GEORGE HOLROYD, DIED IN HULL, ON 23/071918, AGED 29.
First name:
JAMES
Regiment:
Military Number:
5221
Rank:
Private
Date Died
14/07/1916
Place died:
Serre Road Cemetery No:2, Somme, Somme, France
Age:
29
14 RYDAL TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
