BORN HULL 1897. ELDEST CHILD OF ROSINA BRISTER (1870-1943) & THE LATE WILLIAM VALENTINE MANTHORPE (1871-1915), OF 3, LILLY GROVE, REGENT STREET, HULL. (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS FATHER WAS SKIPPER OF THE HULL TUG ‘LINESMAN’ AND ACCIDENTALLY DIED IN 1915. HE HAD TWO SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS. DIED OF INFLUENZA, AT THE 4TH CANADIAN CLEARING STATION ON 24/11/1918, JUST AFTER THE WAR ENDED. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND AGED 21. HIS WILL WAS DIVIDED EVENLY BETWEEN HIS MOTHER ROSINA AND SIBLINGS, ROSIE, KATE, JACK AND GEORGE. HE IS BURIED AT VALENCIENNES MILITARY CEMETERY.
First name:
WILLIAM HENRY
Military Number:
176903
Rank:
Private
Date Died
24/11/1918
Place died:
Valenciennes (St. Roch) Communal Cemetery, Nord, France
Age:
21
3 LILLY GROVE, REGENT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
