BORN HULL 1869. SON GEORGE SNOW (1829-1893) & AND JANE McGRADE (1829-1901). HE HAD ONE BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS.
HE WAS HAD SERVED IN THE BOER WAR AND WORKED FOR THE HULL NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS, AT ALBERT DOCK, FOR OVER 20 YEARS. A RESERVIST.
HE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE WHEN WAR BEGAN. ENLISTED HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE BATTALION, AND WAS KILLED AT YPRES, ON 23/04/1915, AGED 48. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND LIVED WITH SISTER AND HER SEVEN CHILDREN AT 75 WEST PARADE, HULL.
JOSEPH’S DEATH & PHOTOGRAPH WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 14TH MAY 1915.* HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER MRS CATHERINE LYSCOM.
First name:
JOSEPH
Regiment:
Military Number:
3/7493
Rank:
Private
Date Died
23/04/1915
Place died:
Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
48
2 WILLIAM TERRACE, ALEXANDRA STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
