BORN WOLVES 1893. SON OF WILLIAM & ADA OXLEY, OF 64, HAVELOCK STREET, HULL.
HUSBAND OF DOROTHY OXLEY, OF 171 , ST GEORGES ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE WORKED EIGHT YEARS, FOR MESSRS, DALTON, LAMBERT & CO, KINGSTON CHAMBER, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL COMMERCIALS, IN SEPTEMBER 1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 542, 10TH EYR. HE SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE AND WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE 12TH/13TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS, IN MARCH 1918. REPORTED MISSING AND KILLED ON THE 12/04/1918. HE WAS AGED 25.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE YPRES MENIN GATE MEMORIAL, BELGIUM.
“A MAN OF GREAT INTELLIGENCE AND UPRIGHTNESS OF CHARACTER. HE WAS HIGHLY RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.” HULL DAILY MAIL, 10/07/1919. *
HIS BROTHER, LANCE CORPORAL, WILLIAM ELAM OXLEY, 1/4TH EYR, DIED AT HULL ROYAL INFIRMARY, ON 23/12/1919, AGED 29. BOTH BROTHERS ARE COMMEMORATED AT ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, NEWINGTON, HULL.
