BORN HULL 09/071888. ONLY SON OF JOSEPH SLATER & DEBORAH BLADES LUNDS, OF 47 HILDA STREET, HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR AND HYMERS SCHOOL, HULL HE HAD FOUR SISTERS. ENLISTED IN THE 14TH HUSSARS ON 15/06/ 1907. SERVED IN ENGLAND AND IRELAND FOR TWO YEARS. WENT TO INDIA, ON 18/10/1909. PROCEEDED TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN NOVEMBER 1915. TTOK PART IN THE RELEIF OF KUT AND THE CAPTURE OF BAGDAD. WOUNDED IN ACTION, AT THE EUPHRATES, ON 28/09/1917. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 09/12/1917, AT BAGDAD, AGED 29. HE WAS UNMARRIED. LEFT FOUR SISTERS.
HIS DETAILS AR RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR, VOLUME 4.
First name:
WILLIAM CLEASBY
Regiment:
Military Number:
661
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/12/1917
Place died:
Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, Iraq
Age:
29
