BORN HULL 1877. ELDEST SON OF JOHN MIDDLETON & ANNIE ELIZABETH (COULTAS), OF 7 BRIGHTON TERRACE, KENT STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE WAS A SINGLE MAN. EMPLOYED AS A DOCK LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 38. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE SENT TO HIS FATHER, JOHN. HE IS COMMEMORATED AT THE YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE PRINTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 14TH MAY 1915, AND THE HULL TIMES, ON 15/05/1915 *
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOHN THOMAS MIDDLETON, 11/1262, EYR, LIVED AT 25 STUDLEY STREET, HULL.
First name:
ROBERT WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/6656
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
38
7 BRIGHTON TERRACE, KENT STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
