BORN ST JOHNS, NEWINGTON, HULL 1896. SON OF GUNNER, ROBERT LACEY OXLEY & MARY KEIGHTLEY. ONE OF 5 CHILDREN. THE FAMILY LIVED AT 10 FENCHURCH STREET, 117 STEPNEY LANE, & 117 SCULCOATES LANE, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WORKED AS A CLERK. RESIDED AT 44, FOLKESTONE STREET, HULL
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. FORMERLY GUNNER, 115 EAST RIDING RGA. TRANSFERRED TO THE 46TH SIEGE BATTERY, RGA. PROMOTED TO CORPORAL. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 31/10/1917, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER ROBERT WHO WAS ALSO SERVING AS A GUNNER.
HE LEFT BROTHERS, ROBERT LACEY, AND SYDNEY, AND SISTERS, MAUD AND ALICE.
HE IS BURIED AT MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “MAKE HIM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS IN GLORY EVERLASTING”
WILLIAM OXLEY IS REMEMBERED ON THE STONE PILLAR MEMORIAL. AT ST MARY’S CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL
