BORN HULL 1892. SON OF JOAH SCOTT MIDGLEY (1847-1919) AND LOUISA HORSFALL (1855-1935), OF ANLABY, HULL. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. HUSBAND OF MABEL MIDGELY, AT THIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL GARRISON ARTILLERY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/08/1918, AGED 25
HE IS BURIED ON THE SOMME, AT FLATIRON COPSE CEMETERY, MAMETZ.
HIS BROTHER, CORPORAL, GODFREY SCOTT MIDGLEY, 2ND WEST RIDING REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT ARRAS, ON 01/05/1917, AGED 30, AND LIVED AT 154 WALKER STREET, WITH HIS WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN.
First name:
WILLIAM SCOTT
Military Number:
219147
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
26/08/1918
Place died:
Flatiron Copse Cemetery, Mametz, Somme, France
Age:
25
25 , CLIFTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
