Postill, Robert William

Sigglesthorne WW1 Memorial

Born Sigglesthorne, 1891. Son of Stephen Postill (1848-1943) and Lucy Sanders ( 1861-1943). He had two brothers and two sisters. Worked as a farm hand in Goxhill (1911 Census)

Enlisted in Hull. Served with the 1st West Yorkshire Regiment. Killed in action, on 26/08/1917, aged 26. He had married Daisy Ann Clark at Hornsea, on 27/03/1917 and his army effects were left to his young widow.

He is commemorated on the Sigglesthorne ww1 Meemorial, where 75 men served and eleven men died in ww1.


Military Number:
43121
Date Died
26/08/1917
Place died:
MAROC BRITISH CEMETERY, GRENAY, FRANCE
Age:
26
Sigglethorne, Hull, East Yorkshire, UK