Front Row: Agnes, Max, Edith (with baby Edith on knee)
BORN HULL 1897. THIRD SON OF KARL FREDERICK MAX RAETTIG (1864-1938) & EDITH BELL (1870-1946), OF 12 DEE STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. ONE OF SEVEN CHILDREN. THEIR FATHER WAS FROM WITTENBERG, GERMANY AND A NATURALISED BRITISH CITIZEN. HE CHANGED HIS NAME TO CHARLES RAETIGG.
JOHN RAETTIG ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, WITH THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. WAS KILLED AT YPRES, ON 17/03/1916, AGED 19. UNMARRIED. HE LEFT AN ELDER BROTHER MAX,WHO SERVED IN THE MERCHANT NAVY, AND SISTERS, BERTHA, AGNES, EVA AND EDITH. HIS OTHER BROTHER, RALPH ARTHUR RAETIG, WAS SECOND MATE, ON THE STEAMSHIP ‘ELVE’, AND WAS LOST AT SEA, ON 11/10/1917, AGED 23
HIS NAME IS RECORDED, WITH HIS BROTHER, RALPH, ON THE HESSLE ROLL OF HONOUR, ALL SAINTS PARISH CHURCH.
First name:
JOHN RICHARD
Military Number:
2980
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
17/03/1916
Place died:
Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), West-Vlaandern, Belgium
Age:
19
