BORN HULL 1895. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY LAND (1866-1918) & AMELIA TOPHAM (1866-1941), OF 9, DUNBAR TERRACE, HODGSON STREET, HULL AND 9, RICHMOND TERRACE, WALLER STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION AND ARMY ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WORKED IN AN IRON YARD. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 23/10/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 07/04/1915, AGED 20. HE IS BURIED AT HOUPLINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, NORD, FRANCE.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO BOTH HIS PARENTS.
HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON THE WALLER STREET MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 3RD MAY 1915. *
HIS BROTHER, WILLIAM HENRY LAND ENLISTED ON 29/05/1916 AND SERVED IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE. HIS BROTHER, THOMAS LAND, SERVED WITH THE EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT.
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