BORN HULL 1891. SON OF HENRY & ANNIE SLANEY, OF 33 BARMSTON STREET, HULL A FORMER FISH FRYER, LIVING AT 22 SWANN STREET, HULL. A FORMER MEMBER OF ST SAVIOUR’S SCOUTS. HE WORKED AS A TAXI DRIVER, FOR MESSRS, ELLYARDS, JAMESON STREET, HULL.
HE MARRIED ROSE ELLEN FEAREY (1888-1917),AT HULL, IN 1907. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 7 GORDON AVENUE, CHAPMAN STREET WITH THEIR FOUR DAUGHTERS (HDM ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN THE 6TH EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION. LEFT FOR THE DARDANELLES, ON 14/07/1915. WOUNDED AT GALLIPOLI. HE WAS REPATRIATED TO ENGLAND. DIED OF GAS AND GUNSHOT WOUNDS, AT NETLEY HOSPITAL, HAMPSHIRE, ON 28/07/1917, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 04/08/1917. *
HIS WIFE ALSO DIED IN 1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS BROTHER, HARRY.
HE IS BURIED AT NETLEY MILITARY CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “WORTHY OF EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE”
