BORN HULL 1889. SON THOMAS LOMAS LOCKING (1853-1937) & LOUISA LEND (1852-1912), OF COTTINGHAM. SON OF A SOLICITOR. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. WAS A SOLICITOR BEFORE THE WAR WITH HIS FATHER’S FIRM, COLONIAL CHAMBERS, LAND OF GREEN GINGER, HULL. ALSO CLERK TO THE HULL & EAST RIDING JUSTICES.
HE WAS 2ND LIEUTENANT, ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. PROMOTED TO FIRST LIEUTENANT, IN JUNE 1917. HE DIED ON 20/01/1918, AGED 27.
HE LEFT £934 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, AT KINGSTON LODGE, HULL ROAD, COTTINGHAM (PROBATE ADDRESS)
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE ON HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL MEMORIAL AND COTTINGHAM WAR MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH, ON 26TH JANUARY 1916. *
BURIED AT WIMEREUX COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “A WILLING SACRIFICE”.
HIS BROTHER, EDWARD KENNETH LOCKING SERVED IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. HIS OTHER BROTHERS AVOIDED WAR SERVICE.
