BORN HULL 1894. SON OF GEORGE EDWARD SNOW (1863-1927) & MINNIE BEALES (1869-1903), OF 2 WILLIAM TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. GEORGE WORKED AS ‘CHAIN BOY’, HAWKER AND STREET SELLER. HE LIVED WITH HIS AUNTIE, AT 3, KENT TERRACE, HODGSON STREET, HULL.
HE MARRIED FANNY STATHERS (1897-1977), AT ST JUDES’ CHURCH, HULL, IN JANUARY 1914. HIS WIFE LIVED AT 49 WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL.
GEORGE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE 2ND EYR. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 08/09/1914. HE WAS WOUNDED (LEFT HIP & RIGHT WRIST), AT THE AISNE, ON 20/09/1914. HE LAID IN A FOOT OF WATER AND MUD FOR EIGHTEEN HOURS BEFORE HE WAS PICKED UP. HE RETURNED TO DUTY LATER IN 1914. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT YPRES ON 11/04/1915, AGED 21. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, FANNY, AND SON, GEORGE (1914-1973). SHE RE-MARRIED AND BECAME FANNY BAYSTON, MOVING TO 51 WEST PARADE, SPRING BANK, HULL.
HE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/10/1914. HIS DEATH AND PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 19TH MAY 1915. *
HIS ELDER BROTHER, PRIVATE, JOSEPH SNOW, 2ND EYR, WAS KILLED IN ACTION TWO WEEKS LATER, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 26. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 29TH MAY 1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
GEORGE LEFT A SON, GEORGE AISNE SNOW. HIS WIDOW FANNY LATER MARRIED GEORGE’S FRIEND, JOHN WILLIAM BAYSTON.
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HIS BROTHER, JOSEPH SNOW (1889-1940), ROYAL ENGINEERS, LIVED AT 11, WILLIAMS TERRACE, WEST PARADE, HULL
