BORN HULL 1886. SON OF FRED & ANNIE M. STOW, OF FOUNTAIN ROAD, HULL.
HUSBAND OF ALICE MAUD BURLACE STOW, OF 56, GODDARD AVENUE, HULL (AR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS A HULL POLICEMAN.
SERVED AS LANCE SERGEANT WITH THE 1ST WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. POSTED TO FRANCE WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. CAPTURED IN OCTOBER 1914. AND REPATRIATED AS A PRISONER OF WAR. HE DIED ON 19/03/1919, AGED 32. BURIED AT HULL NORTHERN CEMETERY. HIS GRAVE READS, “ONLY LENT”
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, ROLL OF HONOUR. HE IS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/10/1914. *
He is commemorated on the Hull City Police Force Memorial Plaque, Priory Road Police station, Hull, unveiled on 21st January 1923. His death is recorded as 9th April 1919.
HIS BROTHER, SERGEANT, STOW, COLDSTREAM GUARDS, WHO LIVED IN BARTON, WAS KILLED IN 1914.
