BORN HULL 08/03/1896. SON OF ANNIE ELIZABETH (BROOKS) & THE LATE HARRY KING, OF 2 DURHAM VILLAS, MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL. EDUCATED MERSEY STREET, BOARD SCHOOL. MEMBER OF THE BRUNSWICK WESLYEAN SUNDAY SCHOOL. EMPLOYED AS A SAWYER’S ASSISTANT. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 08/01/1914. ARRIVED FRANCE 19/10/1914. KILLED IN ACTION AT HOOGE, 09/08/1915, AGED 19. BURIED HOOGE WOOD. HE WAS UNMARRIED. HIS BODY WAS NOT RECOVERED. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN HE HULL TIMES, ON 18/09/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
First name:
JOHN
Regiment:
Military Number:
10175
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
2 DURHAM VILLAS, MIDDLEBURG STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
