BORN HULL 1896. ONLY SON OF WILLIAM HENRY MATTHEWS & ANN (CONROY), OF 4 RILEY TERRACE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (1901 CENSUS ADDRESS) & 6 WENTWORTH STREET, HU3 2AX. (HDM ADDRESS 30/10/1917).
HE WAS MARRIED AND LIVED AT 11 HIGSON’S COURT, BLANKET ROW, HULL. BEFORE THE WAR HE WAS A CORPORATION DUSTMAN.
ENLISTED HULL. HE WAS DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, ATTACHED TO THE TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 06/10/1917, AGED 21. HE LEFT A SORROWFUL MAOTHERS AND SISTERS, ANNIE AND LIZZIE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 6TH NOVEMBER 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *.
First name:
JOHN THOMAS
Military Number:
771623
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
06/10/1917
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
21
11 HIGSON'S COURT, BLANKET ROW, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
