BORN HULL 1894. ONLY SON OF GEORGE SMITH & EMMA EKLIZABETH ROGERS, AT 9 WILLIAMS PLACE, OSBOURNE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS ADDRESS). HE HAD FOUR HALF SISTERS. A FORMER DOCK LABOURER & FISH FRYER. HE LIVED WITH HIS AUNT, AT 156 WOODCOCK STREET, HULL AND 1 PROVIDENCE COURT, FAWCETT STREET (OFF GREAT PASSAGE STREET) HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 12/07/1916, AGED 22. HE ENLISTED TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE AND HAD BEEN IN FRANCE FOR SIX WEEKS.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, MISS MARTHA ROGERS. HE IS BURIED IN BELGIUM.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/08/1916. *
First name:
JOHN RICHARD
Regiment:
Military Number:
4039
Rank:
Private
Date Died
12/07/1916
Place died:
La Laiterie Military Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
22
