BORN HULL JUNE 1896. SON OF ARTHUR SALMON & DAISEY BLANCHE HEWITT, AT 13 CYPRUS WALK, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL. HE ALSO LIVED WITH HIS AUNT AT 19 CANNING STREET, HULL. A MEMBER OF THE HULL BOYS CLUB. HE WAS EMPLOYED BY MESSRS, G PANTON & SONS, ANLABY ROAD.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ALREADY WOUNDED AND SLIGHTLY GASSED IN FRANCE. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 19. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT YPRES. HE LEFT A SISTER ANNIE, WHO WAS THREE YEARS YOUNGER.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL BOYS CLUB MEMORIAL, ROPER STREET.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 28/08/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/6131
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
19
13 CYPRUS WALK, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
