BORN HULL 1891. SON OF THOMAS MARTIN (1865-1894) & MARGARET WALSH (1862-1951), OF 1 VICTORIA SQUARE, NEW GEORGE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 4, SPRING GARDENS, SPRING STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS. WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER IN CIVILIAN LIFE
A PROFFESIONAL SOLDIER (1911 CENSUS). HE SERVED AS PRIVATE, 9070, 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 25. COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM. HIS WAR PENSION WENT TO HIS MOTHER, MARGARET.
HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, JAMES MARTIN, 10430, 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS WOUNDED IN THE WAR AND ALSO RECEIVED A WAR PENSION.
First name:
EUGENE
Regiment:
Military Number:
9070
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
4 SPRING GARDENS, SPRING STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
