BORN SHEFFIELD 25/06/1883. SON OF HENRY & SARAH JANE RAITHBY, OF 67, LOVETT STREET, CLEETHORPES.
HE MARRIED IN GRIMSBY, IN 1908. HIS WIFE HETTY FOSTER (PLANT) AND FOUR CHILDREN LIVED AT 11, LORRAINE STREET, HULL (ARMY RECORDS ADDRESS). HE WAS A BRICKLAYER AND FORMER WORKER AT THE HOMES OIL MILLS IN HULL.
ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 14/10/1914. SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 01/04/1915. KILLED IN ACTION ON 11/04/1915, AGED 32. HE HAD SERVED FOR 182 DAYS. HIS WIDOW & FOUR CHILDREN WERE AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 22 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE. THEY LATER MOVED TO 1 SISTER’S TERRACE, LEE SMITH STREET, HULL.
HE ALSO LEFT BROTHER RALPH, AND TWO SISTERS, LILLY AND ALICE IN CLEETHORPES. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 08/05/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPGH. *
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT YPRES.
