BORN BRIDLINGTON, YORKS, 1886. SON OF THOMAS & MARY MAIDENS OF HULL.
HE MARRIED IN HULL ON 15/12/1916. HE MARRIED EMILY PATRICK, OF HULL, AT NEW HARTLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND, ON 15/12/1916. HIS WEDDING PHOTO APPEARS IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 18TH DECEMBER 1916. *
HIS WIFE EMILY (PATRICK) MAIDENS LIVED AT 15 , BARMSTON STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) AND 21, WESTMORELAND STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. EX PRIVATE, 22354, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, 53306, 15TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. HE WAS KILLED TEN MONTHS LATER, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 31.
HE IS BURIED AT LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “ETERNAL REST GIVE TO HIM O LORD MAY HE REST IN PEACE”
First name:
JOHN
Military Number:
53306
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
31/10/1917
Place died:
Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium
Age:
31
15 , BARMSTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
