BORN HULL 1885. SON OF SAMUEL & THE LATE ALICE SPENCER, OF HULL. A BRICKLAYER.
HE MARRIED SUSAN ANN WILLIAMSON, AND LIVED AT 3, LIZZIE’S TERRACE, GILLETT STREET, HULL. (1911 CENSUS). THEN MOVED TO 78, CLIFTON STREET, CARBROOK, SHEFFIELD (WAR PENSION & ARMY ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED IN ATTERCLIFFE, SHEFFIELD, ON 10/07/1915, AGED 30. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 21/06/1916. JOINED THE 12TH KINGS ROYAL RIFLE CORPS, ON 07/07/1916, IN THE FIELD. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 08/08/1916, AGED 31. HE HAD BEEN IN THE ARMY LITTLE OVER A YEAR.
HE IS BURIED AT ESSEX FARM CEMETERY, BELGIUM.
HE LEFT HIS WIDOW, SUSAN, BROTHERS, SAM AND THOMAS, AND SISTERS, SARAH ELLEN, FLORENCE AND ALICE.
First name:
JAMES EDWARD
Military Number:
14451
Rank:
Rifleman
Date Died
08/08/1916
Place died:
Essex Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
31
5, MAYO TERRACE, LIVERPOOL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
