BORN GANSTEAD, HULL 1886. SON OF JOHN NAYLOR (1850-1890) AND HARRIET WRIGHT (1857-1935). AN AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 7.5 INCHES TALL, 38-40.5 INCH CHEST, 149 LBS WEIGHT. HIS BROTHER, WRIGHT NAYLOR LIVED ON COWDEN FARM, HATFIELD, YORKSHIRE. HIS SISTER FANNY LIVED AT ANGELO TERRACE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL.
HE MARRIED AT SCULCOATES, HULL, ON 28/12/1912. HUSBAND OF ALICE TEALE, OF WYTON AND THEN NORTHGATE, HESSLE, (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY, ON 19/01/1917. SERVED WITH THE 12TH LEICESTERSHIRE BATTALION. HE DIED OF PHNEUMONIA, AT THE GREAT NORTHERN GENERAL, HOSPITAL, NEWCASTLE, ON 26/02/1917, AGED 31. HE LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS AND £548 IN HIS WILL TO HIS WIDOW, ALICE, DAUGHTER MARGARET AND SON JAMES.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE BILTON, WYTON AND GANSTEAD WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST PETER’S CHURCH, BILTON. ALSO RECORDED ON THE SUTTON-ON-HULL WAR MEMORIAL, ST JAMES CHURCH SUTTON.
HE IS BURIED AT (ST. PETER) CHURCHYARD, BILTON, YORKSHIRE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “STEADFAST UNTO DEATH”
