BORN HULL 18/10/1890. SON OF JOHN PRIESTLEY (1861-1896) AND BRIDGET BRENNAN (1865-1936). HIS MOTHER MARRIED WILLIAM KIRK WHEN HER HUSBAND DIED. STEP SON OF WILLIAM KIRK. HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHER. ALSO SIX HALF SIBLINGS FROM THE KIRK FAMILY.
A GENERAL LABOURER. HE MARRIED, MARY ADELAIDE STONE, AT HULL, IN 1914. THEY LIVED AT 52, PENNINGTON STREET, HULL.
ENLISTED HULL. SERVED AS A GUNNER IN THE ANTI AIRCRAFT, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 14/01/1918, AGED 28. BURIED IN BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, MARY.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE WW1 MEMORIAL, AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO CHURCH, JARRATT STREET, HULL.
First name:
JAMES
Military Number:
118627
Rank:
Gunner
Date Died
14/01/1918
Place died:
Mendinghem Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
28
52, PENNINGTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
