BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOHN HENRY BARNABAS IRWIN & MARY JANE WHITE. ONE OF FIVE CHILDREN. LIVED 5 ANVIL TERRACE, SPRING STREET AND 20 , SHORT STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED HULL. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 03/10/1915. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. DIED AT HOME ON 25/01/1917, AGED 20. BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE HULL BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, ROPER STREET. HIS SISTER ELLEN CATHERINE IRWIN DIED HULL, IN 1917.
NB: HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM IRWIN LIVED AT 83 SPRING STREET & 46 PARROTT STREET, HULL.
First name:
JOHN JOSEPH
Regiment:
Military Number:
2751
Rank:
Private
Date Died
25/01/1917
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
20
