BORN HULL 20/03/1886. BAPTISED ST JOHN’S CHURCH ON 07/04/1886. SON OF JOSHUA AND MARTHA REED. HE LIVED AT, 7 HENRY’S PLACE, GREAT PASSAGE STREET IN 1891; AND 4 LOUISA PLACE, MYTON STREET, HULL, IN 1901.
HE MARRIED IN HULL, ON 18/12/1907. WIFE EDITH ANN LISTER AND TWO SONS WILLIAM AND GEORGE (1910 -1976), LIVED AT 17 , MOXON STREET, HULL. HE WORKED FOR MR W. TADMAN, FRUIT MERCHANT, HUMBER STREET, HULL, AS A FRUIT WAREHOUSE MAN.
ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 28/12/1914. EX 1316, 12TH HULL PALS. SERVED IN EGYPT. ARRIVED FRANCE ON 8/03/1916. WOUNDED IN JULY 1916. INJURED IN THE RIGHT LUNG AS A RESULT OF A SHELL EXPLOSION. HE WAS INVALIDED TO EPSOM HOSPITAL, ENGLAND AND DISCHARGED FROM SERVICE, AS UNFIT, ON 27/12/1917.
HE WAS REPORTED BADLY WOUNDED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/09/1916. *
HE WAS AWARDED THE SILVER WOUND BADGE. DIED OF HIS WOUNDS, IN 1928. HE IS BURIED IN HULL WESTERN CEMETERY WITH REMARKS THAT HE DIED OF WAR WOUNDS RECIEVED IN 1916.
17 , MOXON STREET, HULL, WAS HIS ARMY AND PROBATE ADDRESS. HE LEFT £162 TO HIS WIDOW EDITH ANN REED.
