BORN HULL 30/9/1880. WIFE EDITH EMMA SCALES LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS MOTHER LIVED TYNEMOUTH STREET, HULL. HE MOVED TO 421 HECT STREET, LONGPOINT, MONTREAL, IN 1906. PREVIOUSLY EMPLOYED BY MESSRS. ROSS, IRONMONGERS, HULL. ENLISTED IN THE CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLES IN DECEMBER 1914. LEFT FOR THE FRONT ON 15TH MAY 1915, AGED 35. HE WAS KILLED TWELVE DAYS LATER, BY A SHELL, WHILE ON SENTRY DUTY. TWO BROTHERS SERVED WITH THE 13TH EYR.
HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 13TH AUGUST 1915. * HIS STORY WAS ALSO REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 14TH AUGUST1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. HIS NEPHEW, PTE ALLEN MCLACHLAN, 7TH YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHO LIVED AT 8 KINGSTON VILLAS, ESTCOURT STREET, HULL, WAS KILLED BY A SNIPER, ON 03/08/1915, AGED 21.
