BORN HULL 1889. ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM JAMES & MARY ELIZABETH MCCANN AT 110 , SPYVEE STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A CARPENTER. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. A SAWMILL LABOURER AT MASSEY TIMBER MERCHANTS, NEW CLEVELAND STREET, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS PRIVATE, 22081, 7TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT AND WITH THE TYNESIDE SCOTTISH. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/08/1916, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE SPYVEE STREET MEMORIAL. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/08/1916
BURIED: CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE MEET AGAIN. EVER IN THOUGHT”
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JAMES ROBERT McCANN, 8TH EYR, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 03/05/1917, ALSO AGED 27.
