BORN LIVERPOOL c 1892.. HIS PARENTS LIVED AT 13 CAVE STREET, HULL. WORKED AS A NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY GOODS PORTER, AT THE WEST HULL DEPOT.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. JOINING THE 17TH NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILERS, (RAILWAY PALS), WHICH WERE FORMED AT KING GEORGE DOCK, HULL. PROMOTED TO SERGEANT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 04/08/1917, AGED 25.
HIS WIDOW, MIINIE (BORN 13/5/1892), LIVED 10, SWANN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HIS DEATH, ADDRESS AND FAMILY DEATAILS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 05/08/1919.
First name:
WILLIAM
Military Number:
17/1030
Rank:
Sergeant
Date Died
04/08/1917
Place died:
Bard Cottage Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
25
10, SWANN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
