BORN HULL 1885. SON OF FERDINAND KLEIN (1852-1891) & FANNY ANN MINEDEW (1846-1906), OF 190 , BLENHEIM STREET, HULL.
HE MARRIED ANNIE HODDER (1880-1953), AT SCULCOATES, HULL, IN 1909. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN (FERDINAND, GILBERT, DOROTHY AND KENNETH). THEY LIVED AT AND 12, CONVENT LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
EMPLOYED AS A SCHOOLMASTER AT GANFORD, BRIGG, LINCOLNSHIRE (1911 CENSUS), HE ENLISTED AT EALING, MIDDLESEX, ON 01/05/1915. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT, ON 10/07/1915. DESCRIBED IN HIS ARMY RECORDS AS 5 FOOT, 8 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST AND VERY GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT.
HE SERVED WITH THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT. DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE ABDOMEN AND LEFT ARM, ON 15/10/1917, AGED 32. HE IS BURIED AT WIMEREAUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN. THEY INCLUDED LETTERS, PHOTOS, SET OF DENTURES, WATCH AND CHAIN, AND PHYSICAL TRAINING CERTIFICATE.
