BORN ANLABY, HULL 08/07/1895. LIVED AT LOW FARM, WILLERBY, HULL – (CWGC ADDRESS). THIRD SON OF JOSEPH HEWITT & ELIZABETH EMMA MOWFORTH , BURSTWICK, HULL. FORMER FARM WORKER FOR HIS FATHER’S FARM. HE HAD ONLY JOINED UP NINE MONTHS AGO AND ONLY RECENTLY JOINED THE FRONT LINE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 21. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE Hull Daily Mail 03 October 1916. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, AMBROSE MOWFORTH, WAS ALSO SERVING AT THE FRONT, AT THE TIME.
HIS NAME IS INSCRIBED ON THE KIRKELLA WAR MEMORIAL AT ST ANDREWS’ CHURCH.
HE IS BURIED AT DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “THY WILL BE DONE”.
First name:
RICHARD SEYMOUR
Military Number:
8102
Rank:
Private
Date Died
21/09/1916
Place died:
DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOMME, FRANCE
Age:
21
LOW FARM, WILLERBY, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
