BORN SOUTHAMPTON 1893. LIVED IN HULL. WORKED AS A SAIL MAKER LABOURER. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 14/11/1914.
HE LIVED AT, 3 CAMPBELL’S PLACE, ALICIA STREET, CHARLES STREET, HULL (HIS ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS), WITH HIS MOTHER SUSAN.
DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 2 INCHES TALL, 35.5 INCH CHEST AND 133 LBS WEIGHT. SERVED WITH THE 13TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT (4TH HULL PALS), IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. TRANSFERRED TO THE 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 29/07/1917, AGED 24. DURING A SUCCESSFUL, NIGHT, TRENCH RAID, NORTH OF ROEUX (SEVEN MILITARY MEDALS WERE AWARDED). BURIED AT BROWN’S COPSE CCEMETERY, ROUEX, FRANCE.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER SUSAN. HE LEFT A STEP BROTHER, GEORGE DRINKALL AND SISTERS, EMMA RUTLEDGE AND CLARA GOODWIN.
