BORN GRAVESEND, KENT 1886. MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1910. HUSBAND OF DORA (NEVIS) LYNCH, LIVED AT- 2 GRANVILLE TERRACE, CHURCHILL STREET, HEDON ROAD, 15 CLARENCE AVENUE, DELHI STREET AND 29 FRODSHAM STREET, MARFLEET, HULL. A FORMER DOCKER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FOUGHT AT MONS AND THE REAR GUARD ACTION WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCES. WOUNDED BY A BULLET IN THE HEAD AT RABELAIS, ON 08/09/1914. DIED OF WOUNDS AT DUNKIRK HOSPITAL, ON 14/10/1915, AGED 30. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, DORA AND CHILD.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MARFLEET ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL AND LINCOLNSHIRE TIMES, ON 07/11/1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
BURIED AT BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “FAR AWAY YOU LIE FROM ME, MY LOVE STILL REMAINS FOR THEE, LOVING WIFE”
