BORN HULL 1885. SON OF GEORGE HENRY SLINGSBY (1848-1891) & MARY ANN FAIRFIELD GARBUTT (1846-1924), OF 19, ALICIA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER.
BEFORE ENLISTING HE WAS AN OIL MILLER, WORKING AT EAGLES OIL MILL, CLEVELAND STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. WOUNDED ON THE SOMME. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 11/09/1918, AGED 32. BURIED GERMANY. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, MARY ANN GARBUTT.
PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 11TH OCTOBER 1916. *
NB: ERNEST SLINGSBY, EYR LIVING AT 127 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL.
First name:
THOMAS EDWARD
Regiment:
Military Number:
201700
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
11/09/1918
Place died:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Age:
32
